File System Repository Issue

[Former Member]

Hello All-

I'm having a puzzling time trying to set up a file repository. My portal (EP6, SP14) is sitting on Unix box. I am attempting to connect to a NAS as a windows share. I've added the windowsKM system in system landscape and I've added the corresponding KM landscape. I then added an network path pointed to
<IP>\Share, set jCIFS and used Domain/User as my password. I've then set up my repository, making sure the localroot matches the network path. To minimize variables, I'm just using ACLManager, not Windows ACL, to keep things simple.

I believe I've followed all the steps as specified in the manual. But no luck. I keep getting the following types of errors. Either "Startup Error: The localroot does not exist: /usr/sap/EPD/JC02/j2ee/cluster/server0/
15.233.66.264\portshare" or "getting mapped math - java.io.IOException: Canonical path not available for portshare." (I'm getting that when I use the UNC).

Does anyone recognize these errors and can point me to where I'm going wrong? I've dug through the logs and message board and I can't find anything obvious.

Plenty of points awarded for any and all helpful answers!

Thanks-

Jim Orbin

[Former Member]

Hi Vaibhav.

Normally "canonical path not available for (folder name)" means:

1. Wrong username/password. Please double check you credentials.

2. The resource cannot be linked from the portal server. Please be sure that you can connect to the next ports in windows server from the Unix Server:

a. NetBIOS Session Service TCP 139 This port is used to connect file shares for example.

b. TCP 445 The SMB (Server Message Block) protocol is used among other things for file sharing in Windows NT/2000/XP. In windows NT it ran on top of NetBT (NetBIOS over TCP/IP), which used the famous ports 137, 138 (UDP) and 139 (TCP). In Windows 2000/XP/2003, Microsoft added the possibility to run SMB directly over TCP/IP, without the extra layer of NetBT. For this they use TCP port 445.

I hope these things help somebody.

Best Regards,

Jheison A. Urzola H.

[Former Member]

You might want to ask this in the KM forum...

Cheers

[Former Member]

Done. I considered that but it seemed like the Repository Configuration chatter was mostly on this forum. However, posted on KM now.