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CIFS Configuration

doughertyma — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:46:26 GMT

I'm configuring my Alfresco server and can't find detailed infomation on how to configure CIFS. Does anyone have a real life example of what the file-server-custom.xml should look like? I have a DEV server with a Alfresco space named Projects. I want to create a CIFS filesystem named DEVProjects.

Re: CIFS Configuration

jm_pascal — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:33:40 GMT

Hello,

you can take a look at this link
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Configuration
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Configuring_the_CIFS_and_web_servers_for_Kerberos/AD_integration
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/CIFS_Server_Authentication
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/CIFS

Hope it helps you

BG.

Re: CIFS Configuration

andries — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:31:56 GMT

Tip: use google to search all of Alfresco by adding "site:*.alfresco.com" to your query. In this case, you're searching for "cifs" so at google type this: site:*.alfresco.com cifs

Re: CIFS Configuration

doughertyma — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:05:17 GMT

I'm still confused….. is the host name is the file-servers-custom.xml the name of the CIFS server or the name of the computer? Is this how a user would connect? \\AlfrescoFS

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="CIFS Server" replace="true">
   <serverEnable enabled='true'/>
   <host name="AfrescoFS"/>
   <comment>Alfresco CIFS Server</comment>

And… how does this work with the follow?

       <filesystem name="Test">
            <store>workspace://SpacesStore</store>
            <rootPath>/app:company_home</rootPath>
           <relativePath>/Test</relativePath>

This is my first time configuring this…. please help.

Melissa

Re: CIFS Configuration

kayan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:38:54 GMT

Hi Melissa,

Let your file-servers-custom.xml contain following piece of code….

<filesystem name="Alfresco">
<store>workspace://SpacesStore</store>
<rootPath>/app:company_home</rootPath>
………
……..
You can get the actual CIFS path from your webclient
In the webclient go the company home->view details -> right click view on CIFS ->Copy shortcut ->take the url and manipulate the url bit..[ As you have to replace "/" with "\"]

a typical CIFS path would look like

\\hostnameA\Alfresco

e.g if your hostname is SYSHOME, so it should be
\\SYSHOMEA\Alfresco

Note:- CIFS automatically adds "A" to the URL, you can try without "A" also.

See if it helps.

Thanks
Kayan.

Re: CIFS Configuration

doughertyma — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:27:05 GMT

I've completed the configuration for the http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Configuring_the_CIFS_and_web_servers_for_Kerberos/AD_integration. However, it's still not working. The message I get is logon unsuccessful. There is no detailed message in the Alfresco Tomcat log. Below are some details….

Error Log:
16:16:10,176 DEBUG [alfresco.smb.protocol] Winsock NetBIOS session request received, caller=[ALF-DEV:WorkStation,Unique,]
16:16:10,192 DEBUG [alfresco.smb.protocol] Waiting for Win32 NetBIOS session request (Winsock) …
16:16:10,192 DEBUG [alfresco.smb.protocol] Server session started
16:16:10,192 DEBUG [alfresco.smb.protocol] Negotiated SMB dialect - NT LM 0.12
16:16:10,192 DEBUG [alfresco.smb.protocol] Assigned protocol handler - org.alfresco.filesys.smb.server.NTProtocolHandler
16:16:10,192 DEBUG [smb.protocol.auth] NT Session setup NTLMSSP, MID=8, UID=0, PID=65279
16:16:10,192 DEBUG [smb.protocol.auth] User logged on (type Normal)
16:16:10,192 DEBUG [smb.protocol.auth] NT Session setup NTLMSSP, MID=16, UID=0, PID=65279
16:16:10,192 User:mdougherty ERROR [alfresco.smb.protocol] Closing session due to exception
org.alfresco.filesys.netbios.win32.WinsockNetBIOSException: 0:ReceiveSocket - Unknown Winsock error 0x0
   at org.alfresco.filesys.netbios.win32.Win32NetBIOS.ReceiveSocket(Native Method)
   at org.alfresco.filesys.netbios.win32.NetBIOSSocket.read(NetBIOSSocket.java:286)
   at org.alfresco.filesys.smb.server.win32.WinsockNetBIOSPacketHandler.readPacket(WinsockNetBIOSPacketHandler.java:111)
   at org.alfresco.filesys.smb.server.SMBSrvSession.run(SMBSrvSession.java:1309)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

File-servers-custom.xml:

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="CIFS Server" replace="true">
   <serverEnable enabled='true'/>
   <host name="ALF-DEV-FS" />
   <comment>Alfresco CIFS Server</comment>

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Filesystem Security">
<authenticator type="enterprise">
    <KDC>somo.test.gov</KDC>
    <Realm>TEST.GOV</Realm>
    <Password>…..</Password>
</authenticator>
</config>


<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Filesystems" replace="true">
         <filesystems>

         <filesystem name="TEST">
            <store>workspace://SpacesStore</store>
            <rootPath>/app:company_home</rootPath>
           <relativePath>/TEST</relativePath>

Through the Alfresco web app, I can drill-down into ->Company Home ->Test and see the sub folders. But when I try to connect like this \\ALF-DEV\TEST, I get the logon error.

Any suggestions?

Melissa