I faced this simple but annoying problem lately: technical drawings stored in Sap DMS have to be accessed from both sap gui for windows (on win it’s also possible the Sap Easy DMS plugin of explorer) and sap gui for java on MacOSX. At the “view” command on the sap gui the drawing file (pdf in my case) is transferred to the frontend and then opened… but the directory where the sap gui copy the file is determinated by a Path customized under “Define data carrier type server, front end” in Transaction: DC20. But if you set this Path for the data carrier type “PC” it will not work on both Win and Mac (yes, Sap on standard functions for determinate the frontend type returns “PC” also for MacOSX, this is the ral problem…).
The solution is to simply leave blank the field Path for the data carrier type “PC”. The sap gui will copy the dms files in its temp directory.
