Complete the following steps to prepare your Filr site and make it available to users.
Using the Port 9443 > License dialog, install the same valid license on each Filr appliance in your system.
Change any Filr infrastructure configuration settings that require restarting Filr.
This prevents interrupting Filr services after users begin accessing Filr services.
Notifications |
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Networking Support |
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Add users and groups to your Filr site and set up the LDAP synchronization processes.
Users and Groups (LDAP and Non) |
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LDAP Synchronization |
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If you want users to be able to share through Filr, you must enable sharing for the Filr system.
System-Level Sharing Settings |
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if you want users to be able to upload personal files and folders directly to the Filr site, you must enable personal storage.
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For more information about personal storage, as well as how personal storage relates to users’ Home folders, see Enabling Personal Storage for Users and Groups
in the Filr 5.0: Administrative UI Reference.
Configure Home Net Folder servers.
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If the search context of your LDAP synchronization contains an OES or Windows server that has a Home folder attribute associated with at least one user, a Net Folder Server is ready to be configured immediately after running the LDAP synchronization process. You need to consider the amount of data in users’ Home folder directories when performing an LDAP synchronization.
The following points are critical to successful Home NF Server creation and the synchronization of access privileges.
Import Both Groups and Users: If you import only LDAP users and not the groups they belong to, then file system group permissions won't map to Filr group permissions when Net Folders are created.
Register User Profiles Automatically (default): If you deselect this option, then users won't be created until after they log in. This causes the following issues:
You must wait until users log in to their home folders before you can configure the proxy users and passwords for any HOME Net Folder Servers.
Net Folder access permissions that key off user-based file system permissions will not be set or updated during Net Folder Synchronizations.
Register Group Profiles Automatically (default): If you deselect this option, groups will not be created and Net Folder access permissions that key off group-based file system permissions will not be set or updated during Net Folder Synchronizations.
Configure Net Folder Servers.
Net Folder Servers Home Folder Net Folder Servers Net Folder Server Synchronization |
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Configure Net Folders.
Net Folders Net Folder Sharing Settings Net Folder Global Settings Net Folder Synchronization |
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Net Folders in Filr provide access to files on your corporate OES, Windows, file servers by synchronizing file metadata. In essence, a Net Folder is simply a pointer or a reference to a specific folder on a specific file server.
Filr can be configured to index the content of Net Folders to make the content searchable.
For more information about Net Folders, see Managing Net Folders
the Filr 5.0: Administrative UI Reference.
Enable additional Filr Users for Administrative Access.
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(Optional) Allow access to the Filr site through NetIQ Access Manager.
For more information about using NetIQ Access Manager with Filr, see Section A.0, Access Manager (NAM) and Filr Integration.
IMPORTANT:When you use NetIQ Access Manager with Filr, external users cannot access your Filr site. This means that the following features are not functional:
Users are not able to share with external users.
Users cannot make items accessible to the public.
This means that public users cannot access the Filr site as the Guest user. For more information about the Guest user, see Guest Users:
in Filr: Understanding How Filr Works.
For more information about external users in Filr, see External, Self-Provisioned Users:
in Filr: Understanding How Filr Works.
Configure mobile device access to the Filr site, as described in Mobile Device Access—Default Settings
in the Filr 5.0: Administrative UI Reference.
Configure the Filr desktop application to access files from the Filr site.
For more information about configuring the Filr desktop application.
IMPORTANT:For optimal performance of the Filr system when using the Filr desktop application, consider the following:
Users should not configure the Filr desktop application to synchronize more than 1,000 total files, or to synchronize individual files that are larger than 1 GB to their workstations. For information about how users can configure the Filr desktop application to synchronize files to their workstations, see the Micro Focus Filr 4.0 Desktop Application Guide for Windows and the Micro Focus Filr 4.0 Desktop Application Guide for Mac.
Configure Filr to support WebDAV on a Windows 7 environment, as described in WebDAV Support
in the Filr 5.0: Maintenance Best Practices Guide.
If your Filr site needs to support multiple languages, configure the site as described in UI Language
in the Filr 5.0: Administrative UI Reference.
After you have completed all of the topics in this list that are relevant to your Filr environment, you can invite users to use the Filr site.