CM Repository manager in FSDB mode

Question

Hi ,
I am creating a CM repository manager with persistent mode as FSDB.I have created a network path and given a username which is having full control in the remote machine.
                             But when I am checking in component monitor it is giving the folowing error and the repository manager fails to start.
Startup Error:  Error occured while retrieving canonical name for folder '
172.17.1.249\Portal_KM_Store\Data' (java.io.IOException: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password
Please help
Regards
Nayeem

Answer 1

You might have a look at
<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/e3/92322ab24e11d5993800508b6b8b11/frameset.htm">this documentation</a>.
The CM repository in mode FSDB keeps the namespace structure of the repository in the database just as it does in the other modes. Any change is done parallel in the file system and in the internal database.
Since we have mode FSDB and the file system might change at any time by external processes, there is a component called synchronizer that checks with every lookup if the file system and the internal structure are still in sync. To determine this it looks at the modification date for folders and at modification date and size for plain files.
If any of these do not match then the synchronizer overwrites and modifies the internal data to reflect again the status of the external file system.
Now in your portal the synchronizer itself is working OK. That's because your repositories run fine locally.
With your remote file systems I can think of some possible explanations.
The caches might deliver responses after immediate file system changes. We ruled out this one already.
The synchronizer might not recognize the changes in the file system's meta data. This is why I'd like you to try and compare the behaviour of the file system repository, see above.
The synchonizer might run into some error when it tries to access the remote file system. This should be visible in the logs.
Michael