<div>Hi James Card and thanks for your reply,</div> <div> </div> <div>I have tried UNC path(<A href="file://\\192.168.0.51\">\\192.168.0.51\</A>) in my xml too, but the same error remains. Shall I change something in my mg site administrator to be able to access files over a LAN or ....?</div> <div> </div> <div>Thanks in Advance, <BR><BR><B><I>James Card <James.Card@calcad.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:48:37 -0700, Mansoureh Sadrykia <BR><M_SADRYKIA@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR><BR>> I try to access to a folder of shp files in a LAN. I defined the <BR>> directory of my SHPs - which are shared in the network- in my xml <BR>> content as %MG_DATA_PATH_ALIAS[san-diego]%, in which san-diego is alias <BR>> and the path is \\192.168.0.51\San Diego. (192.168.0.51 is IP address of <BR>> my
computer).<BR>><BR>> When I try to access this feature source an error occures which says <BR>> "the feature source is invalid, an exception occured in FDO component. <BR>> The directory does not exist". I don't know how I should get permissions <BR>> to read the remote data stores.<BR><BR>We typically don't use the "%MG_DATA_PATH_ALIAS[san-diego]%" syntax when <BR>running unmanaged FeatureSources on our MGOS servers; we just put in the <BR>UNC path "\\192.168.0.51\San Diego" (by the way, I'd avoid paths <BR>containing SPACE characters -- still bad juju for Windows machines).<BR><BR>-- <BR>James Card<BR>209-578-5580<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>mapguide-users mailing list<BR>mapguide-users@lists.osgeo.org<BR>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapguide-users<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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