Hi Pravin, The .NET piece of the SharePoint connector is necessary only if you select the sharepoint 3.0 radio button when you set up your SharePoint repository connection. If you don't want to build and deploy the MCPermissions plugin on the server-side SharePoint, you can certainly avoid that by simply selecting the sharepoint 2.0 radio button instead. However, if you choose to do it this way, then SharePoint's file and folder permissions will not be accessible to the connector. (These were added in 3.0 but Microsoft overlooked the web service methods that would allow external access to them.)
It sounds like, with this change, you were probably successful in connecting to the second system you tried. For the first system, can you tell me a bit more about it? For example, what version of SharePoint was it? And, did you follow the instructions and use your browser to determine the proper connection URL? I'm actually very interested to talk with someone who has access to a functioning SharePoint setup, since I lost access to my SharePoint testbed a while ago and would dearly love to bring that connector up to snuff for SharePoint 2010. I'm hoping Microsoft actually corrected the missing feature that required the MCPermissions plugin, for instance. Please let me know if you are willing to experiment a bit to help us with this connector. Thanks! Karl On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Pravin Agrawal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > > > I was trying out the sharepoint repository connector provided by manifold > CF, following are the steps that I carried out to get it up and running. > > > > For building and deploying the CF, I followed the procedure given at > http://incubator.apache.org/connectors/how-to-build-and-deploy.html > > I have build the connector on my linux machine and deployed the application > using quick start process. > > > > The question that came to me during the build process was – is .NET and MS > Visual studio absolutely necessary for building the sharepoint connector or > is it sufficient to provide only those 5 wsdl file mentioned in the guide > and does it works on windows only as I am able to see manifoldCF UI on to my > browser by simply deploying the quickstart version along with sharepoint > repository connection. > > > > I started to make the sharepoint repository connection to crawl one of the > sharepoint site and following are the problems I encountered while creating > it > > 1. After creating the sharepoint repository connection, the status > shows me a message as follows > > Connection status: The site at > http://portal.mydomain.co.in/sites/Documents/Forms did not exist > > 2. With a different sharepoint site, connection status shows me > following message > > Connection status: ManifoldCF's MCPermissions web service may not be > installed on the target SharePoint server. MCPermissions service is needed > for SharePoint repositories version 3.0 or higher, to allow access to > security information for files and folders. Consult your system > administrator. > > > > Can any when tell me whether I am missing some steps > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > -Regards, > > Pravin > > > > DISCLAIMER ========== This e-mail may contain privileged and confidential > information which is the property of Persistent Systems Ltd. It is intended > only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If > you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, retain, > copy, print, distribute or use this message. If you have received this > communication in error, please notify the sender and delete all copies of > this message. Persistent Systems Ltd. does not accept any liability for > virus infected mails.
