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Alfresco CIFS – Windows 2008 leaking SMB sessions

feb 27 2012

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One of the strengths with Alfresco is the many ways you can interact with the repository, getting information in and out of the repository not only using the web client, but also with protocol such as imap, ftp nfs, webdav, and cifs. But taking a protocol such as cifs (before 1996 known as smb) that is non-versioning network file system and apply it to a versionable repository such as Alfresco you are on to a tough journey. I have been dealing more with cifs for many of my clients than I ever would have wanted, but I understand client that wish to use Alfresco via cifs. Their end users can just continue editing document the way they are used to and avoiding the extra steps of download/upload that the web client like Share requires.

Tags : alfresco, bug, cifs, smb, windows

Alfresco multilingual properties – feature or bug?

oct 30 2011

Categories : Notes

Many of you that use Alfresco is probably not aware of that Alfresco has built in support for multilingual properties. Out of the box Alfresco use this for Title and Description, but only for those two. What this means for documents is that if you are logged into Share as a user with en_US locale preferences and create a document with title “My English Title” and description “My English description”, then a user with sv_SE (as in swedish) updates the properties to title “My Swedish Title” and description “My Swedish description”, any user with en_US will still see the original text, sv_SE user will see the “translated” Swedish text. For this to happen you do not need to have that language pack installed. To test this I recommend Firefox with the plugin Quick Locale Switcher.

Tags : share, forms, i18n

Alfresco Team – do SMBs innovate?

jun 21 2011

Categories : Notes

Alfresco just released Alfresco Team http://team.alfresco.com. It fills a gap between the unsupported Community edition and the for SMBs rather expensive fully supported Enterprise edition.
It is a release with lots of new features, you can read all about them on the team site. This is instead about the limitations put into this release.

Tags : licence, licens, open source, öppen källkod