"Non-unique path:found" : /app:company_home/app:user_homes 0

It was a long week for me as I was struggling to get this error resolved. To begin, I had alfresco setup with ldap authentication and synchronization working out of box for the existing users in my company. But, when a new employee joined, she could not login to alfresco with the above error.

Surfed through all the forums out there, but could not get the solution. Then finally one thing struck to my mind.

In authentication-services-context.xml the default path for userHomesHomeFolderProvider bean was /${spaces.company_home.childname}/$spaces.user_homes.childname} and when i looked at the user interface of alfresco, the folder structure for user home folder was companyHome ->Others -> User Homes. Which confused me of the fact that the "Others" folder was created automatically during first setup and I never changed the userHomesFolder path in authentication-services-context.xml. And I have no answer for the same.

So, it was sure that the path to home folder was the problem for the error. I new, I have to change the path in authentication-services-context.xml to companyHome/Others/UserHomes. But the question was how to add "Others".

Then I have to search for the syntax to denote the folder "Others" to place it in authentication-services-context.xml.

Finally  I updated the /alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/authentication-services-context.xml for userHomesHomeFolderProvider bean

<property name="path">
<value>/${spaces.company_home.childname}/cm:Others/${spaces.user_homes.childname} </value>
</property>

Restart Alfresco.

Thats it. All is Well.

The OpenOffice connection has been lost

Whenever I tried to restart alfresco on fedora 14, I used to get these errors in alfresco logs.

An initial OpenOffice connection could not be established. 
The OpenOffice connection was re-established.
The OpenOffice connection has been lost.
And the results was, not able get the preview of the documents uploaded in share.
So, here are steps which I carried out to get the issue resolved:

1.  In .../alfresco/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties replace the values as per your environment

          ### External executable locations ###

          ooo.enabled=true

          ooo.exe=.../openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin

          img.root=.../alfresco/common

          img.dyn=${img.root}/lib

          img.exe=${img.root}/bin/convert

          swf.exe=/apps/alfresco/common/bin/pdf2swf\

     2. To run openoffice as daemon, create file openoffice.sh and copy the script given below.

         #!/bin/bash

         # openoffice.org headless server script

         # chkconfig: 2345 80 30

         # description: headless openoffice server script

         # processname: openoffice

         # Author: Vic Vijayakumar

         # Modified by Federico Ch. Tomasczik

         #

         OOo_HOME=/usr/bin

         SOFFICE_PATH=.../openoffice.org3/program/soffice

         PIDFILE=/var/run/openoffice-server.pid

         set -e

         case "$1" in

         start)

         if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then

         echo "OpenOffice headless server has already started."

         sleep 5

         exit

         fi

         echo "Starting OpenOffice headless server"

         $SOFFICE_PATH -headless -nologo -nofirststartwizard -           accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp" & > /dev/null 2>&1

         touch $PIDFILE

         ;;

         stop)

         if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then

         echo "Stopping OpenOffice headless server."

         killall -9 soffice && killall -9 soffice.bin

         rm -f $PIDFILE

         exit

         fi

         echo "Openoffice headless server is not running."

         exit

         ;;

         *)

         echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"

         exit 1

         esac

         exit 0

         *************

(Thanks for the script Vic Vijayakumar,  Federico Ch. & Tomasczik)
Save the file in /etc/init.d/openoffice.sh and give executable permission.

     3. Sartt the openoffice headless

         # /etc/init.d/openoffice.sh start

     4. Start Alfresco

Hope this works good for you too.