Creating Links to Files on Hard Drives

Thanks for reading my post. As a new user I have managed to get Winserver
2003 loaded and WSS up and working .

With that said I have a need to create links to files that reside on an
external hard drive attached to the server that is running WSS. I'm running
the Desktop version of SQL and have roughly 40 gig of data that needs to be
available (doc's, images, spreadsheets...etc).

My vision is simple...something like the "Documents Libary " with the
excpetion that it has a link to the file on the external drive...not uploaded
to the SQL database.

Thanks

Engelbert
Sun Feb 19 23:11:39 CST 2006

It's a terrible vision.

If you want to use a SharePoint product and still retain your files on the
file system, use SharePoint Portal Server 2003 which will index those files
and present them in the SharePoint web interface along with files that are
in the SharePoint database (etc.).

Engelbert

"JCrowe" <JCrowe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E65A5DA4-973E-4CFF-9EF8-81B322094F3F@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for reading my post. As a new user I have managed to get Winserver
> 2003 loaded and WSS up and working .
>
> With that said I have a need to create links to files that reside on an
> external hard drive attached to the server that is running WSS. I'm
> running
> the Desktop version of SQL and have roughly 40 gig of data that needs to
> be
> available (doc's, images, spreadsheets...etc).
>
> My vision is simple...something like the "Documents Libary " with the
> excpetion that it has a link to the file on the external drive...not
> uploaded
> to the SQL database.
>
> Thanks
>

JCrowe
Mon Feb 20 06:09:27 CST 2006

I figured it was was a terrible vision. Unfortunatly I dont have the
resources to run SharePoint Portal Server.

Thanks for the help.



"Engelbert" wrote:

> It's a terrible vision.
>
> If you want to use a SharePoint product and still retain your files on the
> file system, use SharePoint Portal Server 2003 which will index those files
> and present them in the SharePoint web interface along with files that are
> in the SharePoint database (etc.).
>
> Engelbert
>
> "JCrowe" <JCrowe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E65A5DA4-973E-4CFF-9EF8-81B322094F3F@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks for reading my post. As a new user I have managed to get Winserver
> > 2003 loaded and WSS up and working .
> >
> > With that said I have a need to create links to files that reside on an
> > external hard drive attached to the server that is running WSS. I'm
> > running
> > the Desktop version of SQL and have roughly 40 gig of data that needs to
> > be
> > available (doc's, images, spreadsheets...etc).
> >
> > My vision is simple...something like the "Documents Libary " with the
> > excpetion that it has a link to the file on the external drive...not
> > uploaded
> > to the SQL database.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
>
>

Engelbert
Mon Feb 20 06:18:00 CST 2006

Moving these to the WSS database has two snags

- there's a ca 80% increase in storage requirements over that needed when in
the file system
- if you do the file transfer properly (combine document libraries with
views; try to avoid the use of folders in document libraries) it will take
time

But if you use this as a reason for getting rid of all old and now
irrelevant information that's now stored in the file system, you will have a
corresponding gain; your storage requirements might not increase at all (my
guess is they would go down) and you will have a better split (of document
libraries/views) than the file system's folders give.

Quick and Dirty however will work but produce both that 80% overhead and
Quick and Dirty results.

Engelbert

"JCrowe" <JCrowe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3073BC4B-8264-47F1-8700-5EDDC3D4427C@microsoft.com...
>I figured it was was a terrible vision. Unfortunatly I dont have the
> resources to run SharePoint Portal Server.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
>
>
> "Engelbert" wrote:
>
>> It's a terrible vision.
>>
>> If you want to use a SharePoint product and still retain your files on
>> the
>> file system, use SharePoint Portal Server 2003 which will index those
>> files
>> and present them in the SharePoint web interface along with files that
>> are
>> in the SharePoint database (etc.).
>>
>> Engelbert
>>
>> "JCrowe" <JCrowe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:E65A5DA4-973E-4CFF-9EF8-81B322094F3F@microsoft.com...
>> > Thanks for reading my post. As a new user I have managed to get
>> > Winserver
>> > 2003 loaded and WSS up and working .
>> >
>> > With that said I have a need to create links to files that reside on an
>> > external hard drive attached to the server that is running WSS. I'm
>> > running
>> > the Desktop version of SQL and have roughly 40 gig of data that needs
>> > to
>> > be
>> > available (doc's, images, spreadsheets...etc).
>> >
>> > My vision is simple...something like the "Documents Libary " with the
>> > excpetion that it has a link to the file on the external drive...not
>> > uploaded
>> > to the SQL database.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>>
>>
>>