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CIFS

borja

Hello
I´ve got a drive with a set of folders and pdf. I would like to start using alfresco as a document manager. I see that there is an option called CIFS that allows to map all the content of a network drive for alfresco. but how can be that possible if the content of alfresco is store in a folder called "alf_data\contentstore" and is in binary format?

Best regards,

Borja

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mrogers

You have it backwards.

The CIFS server in alfresco provides access to the content store. It does not map an external filesystem "into" alfresco. You need to copy/ftp/import your content into alfresco first.

borja

I´m trying to access using cifs to my alfresco repository and it´s impossible. i do \\localhost\Alfresco and when i autehtnciate i receive an error. i look in alfresco.log and i cannot find the error.

mrogers

Of course it is not "impossible" :roll:

However it is impossible to help with so little information.

For a start…
What platform are you on?
Why do you think you should be able to connect to \\localhost\Alfresco?
What are your settings in alfresco-global.properties?
How are you trying to authenticate?
How have you configured authentication?
What error are you seeing?
What CIFS client are you using?

borja

Platform: Windows XP.

Why do you think you should be able to connect to \\localhost\Alfresco? I don´t know. Where do I connect?
I´m trying to authenticate using a windows explorer.

Alfresco-global.properties
###############################
## Common Alfresco Properties #
###############################

#
# Sample custom content and index data location
#————-
dir.root=./alf_data

#
# Sample database connection properties
#————-
db.name=alfresco
db.username=alfresco
db.password=alfresco
db.host=localhost
db.port=3306

#
# External locations
#————-
#ooo.exe=soffice
#img.root=./ImageMagick
#swf.exe=./bin/pdf2swf

#
# MySQL connection
#————-
db.driver=org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver
db.url=jdbc:mysql://${db.host}:${db.port}/${db.name}
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect

#
# Index Recovery Mode
#————-
#index.recovery.mode=Auto

#
# Outbound Email Configuration
#————-
#mail.host=
#mail.port=25
#mail.username=anonymous
#mail.password=
#mail.encoding=UTF-8
#mail.from.default=alfresco@alfresco.org
#mail.smtp.auth=false

#
# Alfresco Email Service and Email Server
#————-

# Enable/Disable the inbound email service. The service could be used by processes other than
# the Email Server (e.g. direct RMI access) so this flag is independent of the Email Service.
#————-
#email.inbound.enabled=true

# Email Server properties
#————-
#email.server.enabled=true
#email.server.port=25
#email.server.domain=alfresco.com
#email.inbound.unknownUser=anonymous

# A comma separated list of email REGEX patterns of allowed senders.
# If there are any values in the list then all sender email addresses
# must match. For example:
# .*\@alfresco\.com, .*\@alfresco\.org
# Allow anyone:
#————-
#email.server.allowed.senders=.*

#
# The default authentication chain
# To configure external authentication subsystems see:
# http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Authentication_Subsystems
#————-
#authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm

#
# IMAP
#————-
#imap.server.enabled=true
#imap.server.port=143
#imap.server.host=localhost

borja

The doubts is still up.

mmlindt

The book "Professional Alfresco" Chapter 14 Page 354 states that "you can contribute documents directly using the file system." Then it goes on to give an example of mapping a drive on a Windows system. However, the example is not clear and may not be correct. Here is how the book says to map the drive:

From a command prompt, run the following:
net use z: \\<MACHINE_NAME>A

You can log into the drive using admin\admin. Once this is done, a mapped Z drive should exist and you can browse the drive as you would any drive. Then you can drop and drag content into this drive, thereby, adding content to Alfresco

I keep getting the following error no matter what I try to map this drive

System error 67 has occurred.

The network name cannot be found.

Any help in determining how to map this drive would be appreciated

glenski

Hello

I am using windows and Alfresco 3.4.d and was able to map a drive in windows explorer but you have to get the "syntax" right. IT'S CASE SENSITIVE.

\\<machinename>A\Alfresco

you will then be asked to authenticate, for simplicity purposes enter admin and its password. These are the credentials of the Alfresco system!

I would suggest getting some of the Alfresco books I am using Alfresco ECM, its a little dated but the fundamentals are still very useful.

Regards

G