Open directory and Directory Utility

I'm in a public school system that has everything running within a private IP setting. We have a Leopard server that has been set up so that access by means of a public IP and DNS entry is possible. Ports have been opened to allow iChat, iCal, web, and ARD to function. What we have not been able to do is to use Directory Utility to connect to OD. ARD is working well from outside the district. I can use Directory Utility inside the firewall, but not on the public side of it. Can do a lookup on the DNS entry, but not ping the machine by IP nor by name. I've looked to see if I've missed a port, but I'm not sure what might be missing. I've not located anything that would provide a port that Directory Utility might need to be able to make it through the firewall. Any help or possible direction would be appreciated.

You should post to the server products forums.

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EDSPermissionError(-14120) problems with LDAP, SSL and Directory Utility

Hello everyone,
Apologies for the repost but I think I may have made a mistake by posting this originally in the Installation, Setup and Migration forum instead of the Open Directory forum. At least I think that may be why I didn't receive any responses.
Anyway, I've been trying to get my head around Open Directory and SSL as they are implemented in Mac OS X Server 10.5 Leopard, and have been having a few issues. I would like to set up a secure internal infrastructure based around a local Certificate Authority that signs certificates for other internal services like LDAP, email, websites, etc.
I only have one Mac OS X Server and it is kind of a small office so I have gone against best practice and simply made it a CA (through Keychain Utility). I then generated a self-signed SSL certificate through Server Admin, and used the "Generate CSR" option to create a Certificate Signing Request. This went fine, but I did have some problems signing it with the CA, because the server documentation suggested that once I signed it it would pop open a Mail message containing the ASCII version of the signed certificate - it did not, and it took me a loooong time to realize that I could simply export the copy of the signed certificate it put in my local Keychain on the server as a PEM file and paste this back into the "Add Signed or Renewed Certificate from Certificate Authority" dialog box in Server Admin. Hopefully this can be fixed in a forthcoming patch, but I thought I would mention it here in case anyone else is stuck on this issue.
Once I did this I was able to use this certificate in the web server on the same machine and sure enough I was able to connect to it with with clients who had installed the CA certificate in their system Keychains without getting any error messages - very cool.
However, I haven't had quite as much luck getting it going with LDAP/Open Directory. I installed the certificate there as well, but have run into a number of problems. At first I could not get clients (also running 10.5.2) to talk to the server at all over SSL, receiving an error in Directory Utility that the server did not support SSL. I eventually discovered that the problem seemed to lie in the fact that the OpenLDAP implementation on Leopard is not tied in with the system Keychain, necessitating some command-line voodoo to install a copy of the CA cert in a local directory and point /etc/openldap/ldap.conf at it, as documented here: http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20071203011158936
This allowed me to do an ldapsearch command over SSL, and seemingly turn SSL on on clients that were previously bound to the directory, and additionally allowed me to run Directory Utility on new clients and put in the server name with the SSL box checked and begin to go through the process of binding. Once this seemed to work, I turned off all plaintext LDAP communication and locked down the service by checking the "Enable authenticated directory binding," "Require authenticated binding," "Disable clear text passwords," and "Encrypt all packets" options in Server Admin. However, I am now running into a new problem, specifically that I cannot successfully bind a local account to a directory account over SSL.
Here's what happens:
1) I run Directory Utility, (or it auto-runs) and add a server, typing in the DNS name and clicking the SSL box.
2) I get asked to authenticate, and type in user credentials, including computer name (incidentally, should this be a FQDN or just a hostname?)
3) Provided I put admin credentials in here and not user-level credentials, I get taken to the "Do you want to set up Mail, VPN, etc.?" box that normally appears when you autodiscover or connect to an Open Directory server.
4) I click through, and am asked for a username and password on the server, as well as the password for my local account.
5) When I put this information in, I get a popup with the dreaded "eDSPermissionError(-14120)" and it fails.
Checking the logs in Server Admin reveals nothing special, and while I have seen a couple other threads on this error and various other binding problems:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5967023
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5982070
these have not solved the problem. In the Open Directory user name field I am putting the short username. I have tried putting [email protected] and the user's longname but this fails by saying the account does not exist. For some reason it does seem to work if I bind it to the initial admin account I created, but no other user accounts.
If I turn all the encryption stuff off I am able to join just fine, so I am suspecting that the error may lie in some other "under the hood" piece of software that doesn't get the CA trust settings from the Keychain or the ldap.conf file, but I'm stymied as to which piece of software this might be. Does anyone have any clues on what I might be able to do here?
Thanks,
Andrew

Hard to tell what is happening without looking at the application
source, knowing what OS & hardware you're using etc. You might want to
try running with different JVM versions to see if it's actually the VM
that is the problem. If you have a support contract with BEA you could
ask support to help you diagnose this.
Regards,
/Helena
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Open Directory and Mobile Home Folders

Hi All,
I am a bit confused about Open Directory and Mobile Accounts! here is our scenario. We have an Open Directory setup and all Accounts are set to mobile, accounts are almost 250+, my main problem is the Synchronization Conflicts, the accounts are automated to sync every 30 mins, the problem is every now and then schronization conflict windows popups, our users are complaining almost everytime, another problem is all of the users home folder has a qouta of 5GB, problem is there are users who excedd on the qouta some goes up to 60GB and 100GB, how do i solve this two problems. i am about to loose my mind. We setup like this in order for us to have a backup of all files of the users in case problem arises in the workstation. i have notice that synching file error comes up if you have temporary files used by any applications. the home folder of each user will exclude library, trash, music and entourage databse. Please Do help me.!!! Anyone who knows..?
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Thanks for the info, by now i will look into that little utility that is very helpful (console!)
Yes, I was thinking of synching our users at login and logout, the problem here is that, users here has bigger home folders.. mostly about 3GB, and it will took time to login a user, about 6-10 mins, depends on the network, we have networks users that that has slow networks and fast network on video editing users. What I did is that i excluded the Library in the synch options on each unit here, since we are not using Apple's Mail and iCal, it did minimize the synching error but the temp files and date discripancies are mostly that will generate an error, I am having really problems with this.
thanks for the info i really appreciate it.

10.6 home directory mounting with active directory and open directory integration

Hi guys i am having some issues in my new mac environment. I have a windows network with an server 2008 active directory. I have just recentlly created a "magic triangle" setup with active directory and open directory. When my users login via windows their home folders mount perfect. When any user logs in to any iMac in the building it does not work. They login perfectly fine, but their home folders do not mount. When i try mounting them manually with smb, i get a prompt for credentials. I am thinking this is my issue, my Single sign on with kerbos is working but for some reason is not logging in correctly. If i type in my credentials with my domain first then my name it works.
For example DOMAIN\jsmith works, but the way i think the mac and active directory is doing it now is just jsmith without the DOMAIN.
I feel like this is the problem with the home folders not mounting.
Can anyone provide some help with this?
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Dani

Hi dani190,
are you using the fully qualified domain name of the network server? ie if your server is bob. and your domain is domain.company.com. then the FQDNS would typically be bob.domain.company.com or bob.company.com.
If the FQDNS works, then have you checked in the AD to make sure the path to the network home folder uses the FQDNS?
For the contact search path, did you put the AD at the top the list? (in directory utility)
Did you set the WINS work group on your client computer to your domain?
ie:Apple Menu, System Preferences, Network, Active Network Port (ethernet and or airport) , Advanced Button, WINS Tab, set workgroup to the name of your domain. ie domain.company.com and or company.com

Open directory and Active directory

Hello everyone.
I am from a school in london. We currently have 8 servers (7 running Server 2003 and a recently installed Mac server running os x server 10.5)
We have recently installed new macs into our media room and need them to be set up to work with the current domain setup.
what we wish to do is to run the media centers computers through the Mac server but get the existing domain information from the Active directory server running windows. As i have not set up a mac server before I am having certain difficulties doing this. The first time we set up the active directory on the mac server we could log into the mac computers but could not change any of the policies to different groups to allow or deny certain applications from running. Everytime i go to save a policy for a certain group we get the error message
"Error while saving record "Finchley\Level 1@ Error -14140
Im guessing this is because we are trying to save that to the active directory and not onto the mac server so how can we Map the active directory to the Macs open directory so that we can customize the mac group policies?
Sorry if that didnt make alot of sense im typing abit fast
Thanks

Have you been here?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DirectoryAccess/1.8/en/c7od45.html
It should be straight forward, depending on how your AD accounts are setup.
Unfortunately, I currently see a bug in the system which is often causing the home directory share to fail to mount when I use the AD plug-in in its default configuration. I'm pleading with Apple to fix this soon.
If you use the plug-in in "true network home" fashion, by unchecking the 'force local home' option, then you should avoid this annoying bug. This method however requires plenty of network bandwidth and space for your entire Mac home folder.

Open Directory and Web service groups disabled

Hi,
I am trying to configure Podcast Producer on Leopard Server (got a 10.5.1). the DNS seems to be working fine; same as open direction (ODM) with Kerberos. However, when I created a group in WorkGroup Manager and Directory it is still disabled in the web page (using the domain name). I don't understand why. Could it be a permission problem? Could it be the apache configuration?
Thanks in advance for any help

Hi,
I am trying to configure Podcast Producer on Leopard Server (got a 10.5.1). the DNS seems to be working fine; same as open direction (ODM) with Kerberos. However, when I created a group in WorkGroup Manager and Directory it is still disabled in the web page (using the domain name). I don't understand why. Could it be a permission problem? Could it be the apache configuration?
Thanks in advance for any help

Open Directory and passwords

Hi, I have come across something really odd someone pointed out to me with Tiger Server, and this is something I've not been able to duplicated on Panther Server, or at least I don't think I have been able to.
The situation is this: There are three people in my workgroup who have "administrative" privileges for our small server cluster. When logging into one of the servers, it is possible for a person with administrative privileges to log into the server with any user existing user name, and use their own password, or the global administrative password to log into any account. This does seem weird to me. Is there an article somewhere that explains this? I've done a bit of searching, but am not sure on what I am looking for here.
I am starting to work with Open Directory and LDAP sharing of login information across a series of three servers and am wonder if it might be linked to this, and why/how, etc. Anyone with any good or bad thoughts on this.
Thanks so much.

Hi trotter,
In fact this is a feature called 'masquerading' by Apple which can be very helpful, particularly when when troubleshooting permissions issues on mouted volumes. It allows admins to mount volumes via afp 'as users'.
It was first implemented for Apple servers back in ASIP 6, and the feature exists in both Panther and Tiger.
If you don't want this feature you can uncheck Serrver Admin > AFP > Access > Enable Administrator to masquerade... I believe the box is unchecked by default so one of the admins must have checked it.
IMHO it would also be very useful for admins to be able to have the options to masquerade to user OD/NetInfo accounts also.
HTH,
b.

OXS server 3 with mavericks, it will not load up the assistant with open directory and will not allow me to use old open directory it was not a clean install just upgrade. any help or advise appreciated as i really need the server.

OXS server 3 with mavericks, it will not load up the assistant with open directory and will not allow me to use old opeopen directory and will not allow me to use old open directory it was not a clean install just upgrade. any help or advise appreciated as i really need the server.

I wonder if the disk being referred to is actually your iPod which is not plugged in. Maybe something has stuck thinking the iPod should be there.
Try completely removing all the iTunes related programs according to this method.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1923
Restart you PC and see if startup improves.
If it doesn't improve you need to consider the possibility that there is something else going on.
If The problem goes away, hopefully a fresh install will be OK.

Can I delete Directory app and Directory Utility?

Not sure this is the right forum for my question but in reading through some of the posts it seems like people here would know the answer. Can I delete the Directory app and Directory Utility from my machine, since I am not running a server or anything that would utilize those apps? I use my machine at home only, and have never had any need for those apps, seemingly. I am using Leopard 10.5.5. Thanks for input on this.

Can I delete the Directory app and Directory Utility from my machine ?
You can delete them, but why?
Other than the few megabytes of disk space they take up, what do you expect to gain by doing so?

Terminal Commands to clean Open Directory and Profile Manager

Hi,
So I've made the fun decision to move to ML Server as we are just getting services up and we should be on the most recent software to start. I have had interment luck with Open Directory and Profile Manager and was looking for a way to wipe the data bases and start clean.
I have tried getting to the ( usr/share/devicemgr/backend and running wipDB.sh. however the database doesnot exist.
It would be nice to clean the databases and setting instead of doing a full reinstall of MT Lion.
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~FSU IT

So just found the fix for Profile Manger.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5349
Thanks to this post for finding it - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4142185?tstart=0

Open Directory and LDAP questions/difficulties

Hi, my company is about to try out OSX Server to replace our old Irix file server. In order to do this we need to run through a number of tests in order to validate the idea. Basically, the test setup is a PM G5 running OSX Server 10.4 and a connected Mac and/or PC on the G5's second ethernet port as test clients. The first ethernet port is connected to the local subnet (192.168.1.x) and, ideally, the OSX Server should have its own subnet on the second port and serve DHCP, AFP and SMB to that port only, along with an OD shared directory providing both authentication and home directories for users. (later on, if all is successful, it will serve those services on the company subnet). DNS is supplied by a separate server on the subnet (DNS caching server running tinydns)
I've read my way through the OSX Server documentation, and gathered all the information the Worksheet requires. The problems started occuring because we installed OSX Server over an OSX Client and broke off the Server Assistent, because we were worried at the time that turning on a Windows PDC would collide with our current (and very flaky) Samba server running on the Irix machine, and that DHCP might also collide with our current dhcp server.
As a consequence, we tried to set it up via the Server Admin Panel, Network Prefs, and the Workgroup Manager, after having connected the second ethernet port of the G5.
Doing this, and setting the OD service to an OD Master, along with a Search base of dc=hostname, dc=domain, dc=tld has not exactly changed much. The problem is that the info panel says that LDAP is not running. This confuses me no end. I thought OD was based upon LDAP. The server name in the Server Admin panel is hostname.local. And now I get to my real questions (finally):
1.Would it be better to just wipe the machine and start again using the Assistent, and set up the ODMaster that way?
2.When is an ODMaster not a local directory and when is it a shared directory (the hostname.local worries me)
3.What services exactly need to be running for the ODMaster to function properly
3.How do I configure the local subnet on the second port (should I use the Gateway Assistent or do it by hand), and how do I only serve those services to that port (do I do it by setting the router/gateway for those services as the IP of the second port or as localhost).
4.Do I need to simply enable LDAPv3 on the clients and set the search path to automatic to get the clients to Autheticate?
5.Do user and groups added to the hostname.local become part of the OD Domain?
I'm sorry if I come across as a total newbie. I'm used to doing most of this on the commandline in Linux (except for LDAP, which is new to me), and the GUI. I have managed to entangle myself quite nicely in all this and could really use some pointers.
Thanks in advance
Theo.
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

1. Starting with a freshly installed OS X Server is recommended, but start no services at first, you need working DNS with reverse zone for the server IP to run OD Master (and other services). If the server domain is to be different from the existing network domain name setup DNS in OS X for the test domain.
2. I'm not sure I understand the question. LDAP/OD can be used on the server to "house" the user accounts but you don't have to bind computers to it.
If you don't use the more advanced possibilities with LDAP/OD I don't think the clients even need to have LDAP configured to be able to authenticate.
hostname.local = hostname and the standard Bonjour domainname .local ?
3a. DNS, so that reverse lookup works for the hostname before setting up OD Master. OD needs a "true" domainname Bonjour isn't sufficient. Setup/use something like mydomain.private.
3b. You don't need to do NAT, you can also route between two subnets (you would need a static route in your Internet router too).
If you want NAT you can use the GW assistant. The interface on the top of the list in Network config (where you can add more/alias interfaces) is the "main" interface used as the "WAN"/"Internet" interface.
4. If the clients are "standalone" (not bound to the OD domain or not using server based homefolders and such) I think you only need LDAP if you want the clients to be able to search for info in OD/LDAP. Not needed for authentication.
You can send out LDAP info with DHCP.
5. If you mean you add/enter users and groups to OD/LDAP directory it just means you can have different servers/clients using a central repository(?) for authentication purposes.
If you add (bind) machines to the domain you can to control what clients can do locally (priviledges), which applications they can run and so forth.
In /etc/smb.conf you can say which interface to use för samba (don't remember what to enter though). And if using the firewall (you must if you want NAT) you can stop Bonjour (mDNS - multicasts) from entering the "old" network if you like/need.

[SOLVED] XFCE customize menu help: applications and directory menu

I've been trying to make some progress with customizing XFCE menus. There are two menus I'm trying to create, listed below.
Yes, i have read http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu
No, I'm not saying I understood all of it.
1. I want to have a custom Applications menu that lists all installed applications, without categorization. Preferably alphabetical. I'm guessing it has a lot to do with adding a lot of <include> directives.
Here's what I've tinkered with so far, which produces categories of apps.
<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd">
<Menu>
<Name>Xfce</Name>
<DefaultAppDirs/>
<DefaultDirectoryDirs/>
<DefaultMergeDirs/>
<Include>
<Filename>xfce4-run.desktop</Filename>
</Include>
<Layout>
<Merge type="all"/>
<Separator/>
<Menuname>Settings</Menuname>
<Filename>xfce4-run.desktop</Filename>
</Layout>
<Menu>
<Name>Settings</Name>
<Directory>xfce-settings.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Settings</Category>
</Include>
<Layout>
<Filename>xfce-settings-manager.desktop</Filename>
<Separator/>
<Merge type="all"/>
</Layout>
<Menu>
<Name>Screensavers</Name>
<Directory>xfce-screensavers.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Screensaver</Category>
</Include>
</Menu>
</Menu>
<Menu>
<Name>Accessories</Name>
<Directory>xfce-accessories.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Or>
<Category>Accessibility</Category>
<Category>Core</Category>
<Category>Legacy</Category>
<Category>Utility</Category>
</Or>
</Include>
<Exclude>
<Or>
<Filename>exo-file-manager.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>exo-terminal-emulator.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>xfce4-about.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>xfce4-run.desktop</Filename>
</Or>
</Exclude>
</Menu>
<Menu>
<Name>Development</Name>
<Directory>xfce-development.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Development</Category>
</Include>
</Menu>
<Menu>
<Name>Education</Name>
<Directory>xfce-education.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Education</Category>
</Include>
</Menu>
<Menu>
<Name>Games</Name>
<Directory>xfce-games.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Game</Category>
</Include>
</Menu>
<Menu>
<Name>Graphics</Name>
<Directory>xfce-graphics.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Graphics</Category>
</Include>
</Menu>
<Menu>
<Name>Multimedia</Name>
<Directory>xfce-multimedia.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Audio</Category>
<Category>Video</Category>
<Category>AudioVideo</Category>
</Include>
</Menu>
<Menu>
<Name>Network</Name>
<Directory>xfce-network.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Network</Category>
</Include>
<Exclude>
<Or>
<Filename>exo-mail-reader.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>exo-web-browser.desktop</Filename>
</Or>
</Exclude>
</Menu>
<Menu>
<Name>Office</Name>
<Directory>xfce-office.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Category>Office</Category>
</Include>
</Menu>
<Menu>
<Name>System</Name>
<Directory>xfce-system.directory</Directory>
<Include>
<Or>
<Category>Emulator</Category>
<Category>System</Category>
</Or>
</Include>
<Exclude>
<Or>
<Filename>xfce4-session-logout.desktop</Filename>
</Or>
</Exclude>
</Menu>
<Menu>
<Name>Other</Name>
<Directory>xfce-other.directory</Directory>
<OnlyUnallocated/>
<Include>
<All/>
</Include>
</Menu>
</Menu>
2. I want to make a different Directory menu, possibly by implicating a custom Applications menu. If I could locate the .menu file for the Directory menu panel item, I would like to make minor adjustments to the menu, and invoke it through the Applications menu panel item.
I should state that what I'm trying to accomplish is
a) to remove the submenu-like options with the Directory menu (open Folder, open in Terminal) to have one-click to open the folder directory
b) to add a label next to the panel icon (aesthetics), which would be accomplished through using the Applications menu panel item.
Edit: clarity
Last edited by heyitstallchris (2014-07-31 02:02:36)

Firstly, I'll tackle menu 1.
No need to create an include line for every .desktop file. Do the following:
$ mkdir ~/.config/menus
$ cd ~/.config/menus
$ touch custom-apps.menu
Edit the file we have just created and populate it with the following:
<!DOCTYPE Menu PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD Menu 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu-spec/1.0/menu.dtd">
<Menu>
<Name>Applications</Name>
<DefaultAppDirs/>
<DefaultDirectoryDirs/>
<DefaultMergeDirs/>
<Include>
<Category>X-Xfce-Toplevel</Category>
<Category>Settings</Category>
<Category>Accessibility</Category>
<Category>Core</Category>
<Category>Legacy</Category>
<Category>Utility</Category>
<Category>Development</Category>
<Category>Education</Category>
<Category>Game</Category>
<Category>Graphics</Category>
<Category>Audio</Category>
<Category>Video</Category>
<Category>AudioVideo</Category>
<Category>Network</Category>
<Category>Office</Category>
<Category>System</Category>
</Include>
<Layout>
<Merge type="all"/>
</Layout>
</Menu>
Now just create an application menu panel item and point it to the custom menu file we just created.
This will display every application installed on your system, and any custom .desktop entries you may create (as long as they are set in one of the categories in the menu file). Add or remove categories as you need.
If you want to have the "Run Program" and other "Action" items that are in the default Xfce menu, add a category line for "X-Xfce-Toplevel"
Alternatively, you can forego all the <Category></Category> lines and simply use <All/>
[EDIT] and since this is using garcon (Xfce's menu library), the apps will be in alphabetical order [/EDIT]
Cheers.
Last edited by Padfoot (2014-07-17 09:42:16)

Clamd "can't open file or directory"

I've just installed Mountain Lion Server on a Mac Mini, mainly for use as an email server. Everything is set up and, in the main, working ok except that if I enable anti-virus checking the mail server closes itself. (The other filtering options work fine BTW.) A look in the logs reveals a message
clamd Can't open file or directory
There's no clue that I can see which file or directory can't be opened.
Can anyone tell me where I can look for diagnostic info?
Thanks.

gambo74, Welcome to the discussion area!
It sounds like the drive directory is corrupted.
Boot from the DVD that came with your iMac. Open Disk Utility and repair the hard drive.

Open file from directory in MIDlet

Hi there!
Ia m developing a simple MIDlet application for bluetooth image transfer.
Generally i want to have a random number of files in a directory and store them into a Vector in my program.
I ve been searching the internet for 2 days and havent found anything different from using the clas File with fileinputstream.
I am using Netbeans IDE 6.1. I downloaded the version with essentials for mobility. As i see there is NO library containing the class File in this compiler. Class File is just unrecognisable.
Ofcourse i try to
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PS:When i store default values into vector my program works because jar file is correctly created with correct files and i transfer through connection the file and i display it to screen. I just cant take the names of the files in a directory.
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You can't use Java SE classes in Java ME. Search for documentation for JSR-75: the File Connection API. Or check the documentation that came with your NetBeans mobility kit, it should be somewhere in the mobilityXx/WTKxxx/docs folder.
Note that many mobile devices do not support this API, and to use it on those that do, you will require a signed MIDlet. Obtaining a digital signature can cost upward of US$ 300.
If you're still interested, search for related topics in the [CLDC and MIDP forum|http://forums.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=76], which is also where you should post any further questions related to Java ME.
db

Using a dialog window to select a name and directory to save the file

Hi there
I have a problem with the FILE_SAVE_DIALOG method or better with the windows that will be shown.
Before I save a file (e.g. PDF file) on the presentation server (the PC), I want to open a dialog window to have the option to give another directory and file name, under which I will save the file.
Therefore I use the method CL_GUI_FRONTEND_SERVICES=>FILE_SAVE_DIALOG. I found many information about this FILE_SAVE_DIALOG in this forum, but these tips didn't satisfy me.
The main problem is the FILE_FILTER. How to use this filter (is it a STRING?) properly, when I want to have a list in the dialog window? Nothing worked till now.
I use ERP 2005 with JAVA 1.4.1-07.
My Code:
DATA: fileName         TYPE STRING,
      path             TYPE STRING,
      workdir          TYPE STRING,
      user_action      TYPE I,
      encoding         TYPE ABAP_ENCODING.
    fileName = I_FILENAME.
    path = I_PATH.
    CALL METHOD CL_GUI_FRONTEND_SERVICES=>FILE_SAVE_DIALOG
       EXPORTING
         WINDOW_TITLE         = 'Save Adobe PDF file'
*         WITH_ENCODING        = 'X'
         INITIAL_DIRECTORY    = workdir
*         DEFAULT_EXTENSION    = '*.pdf'
         DEFAULT_FILE_NAME    = fileName
         FILE_FILTER          = '*.pdf'
         PROMPT_ON_OVERWRITE = 'X'
      CHANGING
         FILENAME             = fileName
         PATH                 = path
         FULLPATH             = fullpath
         USER_ACTION          = user_action
         FILE_ENCODING        = encoding
      EXCEPTIONS
         CNTL_ERROR           = 1
         ERROR_NO_GUI         = 2
         NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_GUI = 3
         others               = 4.
    IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
      EXIT.
    ENDIF.
    IF user_action <> CL_GUI_FRONTEND_SERVICES=>ACTION_OK.
      EXIT.
    ENDIF.
When I call this method with these parameters, I get the dialog window, but there is no filtering for PDFs.
I also tried the ideas with:
FILE_FILTER = 'Adobe files (*.pdf)|(*.pdf)'
and so on. But nothing made the dialog window work properly, even the selection list didn't show the right content to select.
Who can help with this method SAVE_FILE_DIALOG?
Thanks
Frowin

HI,
check this program.
<b>
report ZTEST2.
data: file type string,
       path type string,
       file_path type string.
data: itab type standard table of cskt.
start-of-selection.
SELECT * FROM cskt INTO TABLE itab.
call method cl_gui_frontend_services=>file_save_dialog
      exporting
                FILE_FILTER = '*.PDF'
      changing FILENAME = file
               path     = path
               fullpath = file_path.
check not file_path is initial.
call method cl_gui_frontend_services=>gui_download
    exporting    filename                = file_Path
                  WRITE_FIELD_SEPARATOR = 'X'
     changing    data_tab                = itab.
</b>
REgards,

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