We had to offboard our Tridion Docs server from the Windows domain that all of our users are logged into, as an organization-wide security mandate. As a result, the usual solution of exposing the CM import service directories (in particular ImportTranslations) as Windows fileshares won't work. Content Importer asks for a lot of information from the user, compared to the legacy solution of simply dropping files into a folder, and it seems like there is much more room for error in terms of users being able to successfully import their content.

I'd be interested to know if other users have experienced this issue in the past, and how they've approached solving it. Either suggestions on how to make Content Importer more user friendly or how to make legacy imports work without a Windows fileshare would be very much appreciated.