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Create network file share from an API

I am exploring the possibilities of exposing an EMC Documentum folder, and the files/folders within, as a network file share.

The reason is so we can enable another application to read and write files to what it thinks is a standard UNC path, but really the repository is in Documentum.

That Documentum product doesn’t seem to offer this, however does expose an API.

A few thoughts here were a bespoke ‘driver’ for SAMBA, possibly something using WebDAV, but really I haven’t investigated these much yet, so both may be unviable.

Basically, how can I wrap an API up to look like a network drive?

I’ll keep self exploring this but hopefully someone can provide some leads here too..?

Update: using FUSE for Linux.

Solution

  • We identified that we can use FUSE on Linux.