[Building Sakai] Resources-within-Filesystem on Windows -- SOLVED

[Dave Ross]

just a heads up that we've seen instability with this config unless:

1) Your sakai app server is in a windows domain (along with the share you
are using)

2) Your tomcat is running as a service

3) Your tomcat service is running as a user with rights to the share.

All other combinations lead to issues for us...

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:35 PM, will at serensoft.com <will at serensoft.com>wrote:

> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:43 AM, will at serensoft.com <will at serensoft.com>
> wrote:
> >> If you're planning on using a network share to host the content, then
> >> mapping drives won't be an option unless you plan to log in and run
> >> tomcat by hand, so you'll need to be testing using the
> >> \\servername\sharename format anyway (you could share the folder from
> >> the local machine and test it that way). Of course, then you'll run into
> >> cross-machine authorization complexities...
> >
> > Yes indeedy. This is a great tip, thanks, Dave! \\off\to\see\the\wizard!
>
> And with that, the mystery is solved. Thanks, David!
>
>
> HOW TO USE BODYPATH ON WINDOWS FOR STORING SAKAI RESOURCES ON A REMOTE
> FILE SERVER:
>
> We're using the backslashes, so we have to double them -- so
> sakai.property includes:
> bodyPath at org.sakaiproject.content.api.ContentHostingService
> =\\\\10.1.1.28\\SakaiResources
>
> Here 10.1.1.28 is the file server, and SakaiResources is the folder
> that's been "shared". (We were trying the drive/folder S:\\path
> paradigm, which didn't work. Requires \\\\server\\share instead.)
>
> The Sakai startup logs include:
> body path: \\10.1.1.28\SakaiResources
> which is correct.
>
> And files and folders are being created! Woo hoo!
>
> It's always the simple stuff :)
>
> Securing said network-share is left as an (important!) exercise for the
> reader.
>
> --
> will trillich
> "Our only real economic security lies in our power to meet human
> needs." -- S.Covey, the 8th Habit
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