topic Re: CIFS on windows 2003 and VPN in Alfresco Archive

CIFS on windows 2003 and VPN

lblancher — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:03:34 GMT

Hello, I have installed Alfresco 2.1 Community on a windows 2003 server. I would like to be able to use CIFS shares for accessing content. I tried installing CIFS the default way using the DLL to register and use parts of windows. This option turned out to not work correctly because it requires

Re: CIFS on windows 2003 and VPN

lblancher — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:16:20 GMT

Hello,
I have found a work around for this problem. On your DNS server create a CNAME record with the alfresco CIFS name(ie alfrescoserver_A) that points the real alfresco server machine(alfrescoserver).

Something like:

alfrescoserver_A IN CNAME alfrescoserver.domain.tld

Lucas

Re: CIFS on windows 2003 and VPN

skorde — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:28:20 GMT

Hi
I have tried it on my environment and now CIFS work fine (some times) on windows 2003 and VPN
I did DNS entry and now I am facing a problem like some time remote machine can access the CIFS server and some time not, it giving the error like "no network path found" or "permission denied"
Would you please help me to get out of this problem?

System info:
Alfresco Community 2.1/Tomcat/Oracle/Windows Server 2003

Thanks in advance,
Sudhir korde