Configure the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service to communicate with a
remote file system
To permit the BlackBerry® MDS Connection Service to communicate with a remote file system, you specify the URL
for the remote file system and the type of access (Linux® or Windows®) that the domain of the remote file system
supports. You can also provide credentials for the domain so that BlackBerry device users do not need to provide
the credentials when they access the documents.
Before you begin: If the file system requires the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service to authenticate to the remote
file system, create an account on the remote file system that the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service can use to
authenticate when the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service receives requests for documents.
1. In the BlackBerry Administration Service, on the Servers and components menu, expand BlackBerry Solution
topology > BlackBerry Domain > Component view.
2. Click MDS Connection Service.
3. Click Edit component.
4. On the File tab, in the Name field, type a name for the communication method that you want to configure.
5. In the Service URL field, type the UNC path to the remote file system using the following format: /
<computer_name> <fs_path>, where <computer_name> is the FQDN or IP address of a computer or the virtual
view of the shared folders (for example, the DFS Namespace in Windows Server®) and <fs_path> is the optional
directory path that can include a specific filename. When you type the UNC path, you can use an asterisk (*) to
represent a sequence of arbitrary characters (including blank spaces), a question mark (?) to represent a single
arbitrary character, and a backslash (\) to represent an escape character. You cannot type a URL that can search
all of the computers in a Windows domain.
6. If the file system requires the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service to authenticate with the remote file system,
perform the following actions:
• In the User name field, type the name of the account that you want the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service
to use to authenticate to the remote file system.
• In the Authentication domain field, type the domain for the user account.
• In the Password and Confirm password fields, type the password for the user account.
• In the Network provider drop-down list, click the network provider that BlackBerry MDS Connection Service
should use to access the file system.
7. Click Save all.
Examples for step 5
To access a specific file on a computer, you can type /test.company.net/docs/presentation.ppt. To access the shared
folders on a specific computer, you can type /10.10.10.10. To access all of the content on the computers in a specific
domain, you can type *.test.company.net/*.
After you finish: Add communication information to a BlackBerry MDS Connection Service configuration set.
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