However, when I tried editing a file in one of the spaces, it worked, but blew away all the previous versions, version information, etc. When viewed through the browser all the links were broken too – I had to navigate back to the top and down again to find the file.

When running Alfresco locally I can connect using either CIFS (SMB) or WebDAV.

I changed the ports for CIFS in ./tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/file-servers-custom.xml and set-up some firewall rules to redirect so it would run as non-root. I can connect using:

smb://admin:admin@127.0.0.1/alfresco

The executables laying around make me wonder if this is even supposed to work under GNU/Linux. According to the documentation these virtual exectuables are supposed to handle checking-in/checking-out etc.

For WebDAV the URL dav://localhost:8080/alfresco/webdav works for me in Nautilus but it isn’t useful at all (can’t edit files directly and whatnot).

When it comes to versioning though, nothing seems to happen. Items do not have any versioning history what so ever. Actions using CIFS and WebDAV both seem to create new nodes instead of new versions.

Let me know if any of this does anything for you.

Thanks for the link! In the wiki I also found information (not as detailed) related to installing Alfresco server on Ubuntu. But the information I’m looking for is about using Alfresco on-demand (the one on the alfresco.com site) with my normal tools like Nautilus, OOo, etc. Thanks anyway!

Cheers,
Dave.

The following link may help
http://forums.alfresco.com/fr/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1550

(and as you have noticed i’m french, be gentle with google translate )

I’ve been working with Alfresco and Liferay during my internship and I’ve wrote some docs concerning these softs.
I’ve only tested on windows but maybe this could help…
Feel free to ask forums (http://forums.alfresco.com/en/ and http://forums.alfresco.com/fr/) theses are helpful…