[mapguide-users] Connecting to remote files using mapagent ?

[James Card]

On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:48:37 -0700, Mansoureh Sadrykia  
<m_sadrykia at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  I try to access to a folder of shp files in a LAN. I defined the  
> directory of my SHPs - which are shared in the network- in my xml  
> content as %MG_DATA_PATH_ALIAS[san-diego]%, in which san-diego is alias  
> and the path is \\192.168.0.51\San Diego. (192.168.0.51 is IP address of  
> my computer).
>
>   When I try to access this feature source an error occures which says  
> "the feature source is invalid, an exception occured in FDO component.  
> The directory does not exist". I don't know how I should get permissions  
> to read the remote data stores.

We typically don't use the "%MG_DATA_PATH_ALIAS[san-diego]%" syntax when  
running unmanaged FeatureSources on our MGOS servers; we just put in the  
UNC path "\\192.168.0.51\San Diego" (by the way, I'd avoid paths  
containing SPACE characters -- still bad juju for Windows machines).

-- 
James Card
209-578-5580