Configuring access to documents on remote file systems

By default, the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service can search your organization's Windows network for any documents that users might want to access from the BlackBerry devices.

In BlackBerry Enterprise Server version 5.0 or later and BlackBerry Device Software version 5.0 or later, if you want to permit users to access specific documents that are not located on the Windows network (for example, documents that are located on a Linux network) from the BlackBerry devices, you must configure the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service to search the remote file system where the documents are located and provide the authentication credentials to users or the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service. For remote file systems that require authentication, you can provide the credentials to the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service so that users do not need to provide the credentials when they access the documents.

To configure the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service to search the remote file system, you must define how the BlackBerry MDS Connection Service communicates with the remote file system, add the communication information to a BlackBerry MDS Connection Service configuration set, and assign the configuration set to one or more BlackBerry MDS Connection Service instances.