topic Re: Problem Connecting With CIFS in Alfresco Archive

Problem Connecting With CIFS

klwalker — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:53:56 GMT

I am running Alfresco v2.1 on JBoss, on a Windows Vista pc, and was initially having trouble configuring the CIFS server to connect to the repository, but have figured a way around it and am wondering if it is a bug. The problem was because my computer name was exactly 15 chars long, and it tries t

Re: Problem Connecting With CIFS

dinger — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:24:38 GMT

I think this might be a limitation of CIFS. Perhaps the computer name is only allowed to be 15 characters long.

Cheers

Rob

Re: Problem Connecting With CIFS

invantix — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:27:27 GMT

The CIFS share can have any name you choose, it does not need to be computername_a. You can edit the file /tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/fileservers-custom.xml file and name the share whatever you want. In this case I called it "alfserver". So now in windows I can map a drive to \\alfserver\alfresco


   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="CIFS Server">
      <serverEnable enabled="true" />
      <host name="alfserver" domain="MyDomain" />
      <comment>Alfresco CIFS Server</comment>
      <!– Set to the broadcast mask for the subnet –>
      <broadcast>255.255.255.0</broadcast>
      <sessionDebug flags="NetBIOS,State,Notify,Tree,Negotiate,Socket,Errors" />
   </config>
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Regards