Connecting Alfresco Share to a network folder

[ktavasalo]

Hello. I am very new to Alfresco. Can somebody help me please.
One of the requirements in my practicum project is to connect a  user space in Alfresco Share to a network folder. It is like mapping it to the SMB network. I dont know what to do. Please hep me.
Thank you very much..

[jpotts]

You cannot point Share to a network drive. However, if you want to access the files stored in Share from a network drive, the repository can be exposed through CIFS/SMB. To understand how to do that, read the <a href="http://docs.alfresco.com/4.2/topic/com.alfresco.enterprise.doc/concepts/fileserv-subsystem-CIFS.html">documentation</a>.

Jeff

[ktavasalo]

Thank you Jeff. Correct me if I am wrong Jeff. You mean to say, I can access the files in Share using a network drive BUT I cannot access them using Alfresco? My practicum supervisor wants me to modify Alfresco in such a way that a user uses Alfresco to connect to the network. Is this possible? Please help me.. Thank you very much..

[jpotts]

Alfresco is a repository. The files you access using any of the Alfresco clients (like Alfresco Share, Alfresco Explorer, Alfresco Mobile) must reside in the Alfresco repository. They cannot reside anywhere else.

Jeff

[etech]

Hi there. Couldn't you do something creative (or hackish) like:

(1) Mount Alfresco to a CIFS directory.
(2) Mount your remote/network directory to a directory within the Alfresco CIFS directory?

I have not tested this myself, but this or something similar may work..

[jpotts]

If you look at the Alfresco content store, you'll see that the files are in a proprietary structure and that all of the files have a ".bin" extension and have been renamed. The database keeps track of the names of files and their state along with all of the other metadata it tracks about a piece of content. So a file system in an arbitrary format with "real" file names and no corresponding entries in Alfresco's relational database will not be usable to an Alfresco server.

Hope this helps,

Jeff

[popkultur]

But is not this https://docs.alfresco.com/4.0/tasks/tuh-maptodrive.html what he is searching for? (and me, too). Or did I not understand it right? See also https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/general/non-technical-alfresco-discussion/map-windows-environment-...

[jpotts]

Popultur,

No, this is not what he was searching for. The original post was not about exposing the Alfresco repository as a file share. The original post was about taking a non-Alfresco file share and somehow exposing it through Alfresco Share without ingesting the files into Alfresco's own repository.

Jeff