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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

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Alfresco 3 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Alfresco is the renowned and multiple award winning open source Enterprise content management system which allows you to build, design, and implement your very own ECM solutions.You have read a number of tutorials, blogs, and books on Alfresco. Now you're in the real world, trying to use Alfresco, but you’re running into problems with it. This is the book you want. Packed full of solutions that can be instantly applied, this cookbook with its practical based recipes and minimal explanation meets that demand.This Alfresco 3 cookbook boasts a comprehensive selection of recipes covering everything from the basics to the advanced. The book has recipes for quickly installing Alfresco in Windows and Linux and helping you use custom content model, rules, and search. There is also a collection of recipes focused on creating Scripts, Freemarker templates, Web Scripts, and new workflow definitions. Steps to integrate Alfresco with other systems like MS-Office are also included. You will be able to use Alfresco’s File and Email servers. Finally, step-by-step recipes are presented to create an Alfresco build environment and compile the source code. This Alfresco 3 Cookbook is perfect for developers looking to start working on Alfresco quickly, gain complete understanding, write custom implementations, and achieve expertise very easily.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Alfresco 3 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configure and use Alfresco file servers


We have experienced a wide variety of ways and methods to interact with Alfresco. But, that is not all. The Alfresco repository can be exposed via several other filesystem protocols such as CIFS, FTP, WebDAV, and so on.

In this recipe, we will see how to configure and use the CIFS and FTP server. CIFS—stands for Common Internet File System—a protocol for file transfer that lets you get access to files that are local to the server from remote locations and read and write to them.

We will see that CIFS-enabled Alfresco repository can be used in Windows as a normal shared drive. We will also explore how we can use the Alfresco repository using standard FTP protocol.

How to do it...

In Alfresco 3.3 Tomcat distribution, CIFS and FTP file server are enabled by default. However, we will see what settings are required to enable the file servers.

  1. 1. Open the file-servers.properties file from the \tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco folder.

  2. 2. Paste...