CIFS Mount

Call it The GCDLADB if you like.

Mounting //STORAGE for IMI Ingest in Digital.Grinnell  2 min read   Jul 22, 2019   |  Updated: Nov 12, 2020 08:30
Claiming another small victory today! Why? Well, the Digital.Grinnell instance of IMI (Islandora Multi-Importer) module is customized so that choosing “*local” as an object ingest source invokes a hook function I created in our DG7 module. That hook enables IMI to “find” named files/content (things like PDFs, images, etc.) in the Grinnell College //STORAGE server. //STORAGE can be mounted as a CIFS (Common Internet File System) and used to drive ingest if the right package/drivers are made available to Islandora. That can be a little tricky in ISLE, but it’s manageable. ...