topic Office Plugin + NTLM + Webdav in Alfresco Archive

Office Plugin + NTLM + Webdav

dinger — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:24:18 GMT

Has anyone managed to get this working? It seems really flakey on our setup… if I disable NTLM on the webdav servlet then it works just fine.Is NTLM correctly implemented in the Office Plugin?CheersRob

Re: Office Plugin + NTLM + Webdav

duxtinto — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:40:01 GMT

Hi,

I'm working also on the integration of the office plugin with ntlm authentication.

I think NTLM is not implemented in the plugin, because it receives the 401 error, and try to send again the request.

Did you get some new results?

Re: Office Plugin + NTLM + Webdav

dinger — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:55:26 GMT

Hi,

I've been chasing this up with support. I agree with you that it doesn't seem to use NTLM (looking at the source) but it does use embedded IE which would mean NTLM should work. I'll let you know if I get any more info.

Rob

Re: Office Plugin + NTLM + Webdav

duxtinto — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:34:23 GMT

Hi Dinger,

Thanks for your reply.

I already downloaded the VS project for the office 2003 plug-in. I'm going to take a look, and if i found anything out i'll let you know.

David.

Re: Office Plugin + NTLM + Webdav

mrintegrity — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:48:43 GMT

I have been selling the alfresco concept to my team for a while now, demonstrating the office plugin was a big hit.. I did it with standard alfreso user database but production system will be using ntlm + sso, I have started setting this up and the office plugin just keeps re-opening the login dialog when i try to login.. won't let me close or cancel it, have to kill office from task manager!

Has anyone managed to find a possible solution/workaround to this issue? (that doesn't involve disabling ntlm sso that is )

Alan

Re: Office Plugin + NTLM + Webdav

mikeh — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:54:51 GMT

You don't say which version you're trying to set-up, but you could try installing a new Office client - that bug was fixed a while back.

Mike

Re: Office Plugin + NTLM + Webdav

mrintegrity — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:44:16 GMT

Hi,

Sorry for not including that information to start with,

Alfresco version is 2.1.0
ms office version is 2003 (11.8206.8202) SP3
alfresco office extension is alfresco-community-office2003-addins-2.1.0

As far as I'm aware, that's fairly up to date.

Thanks,

Alan

Re: Office Plugin + NTLM + Webdav

mikeh — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:31:46 GMT

Try grabbing the v3.0 add-ins from the nightly build server - they've not changed from v2.9 (apart from the version number) which has the bug fixes in.

Mike

Re: Office Plugin + NTLM + Webdav

dinger — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:03:57 GMT

Is there a fix for Webdav + NTLM access?

Cheers

Rob

Re: Office Plugin + NTLM + Webdav

mikeh — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:09:42 GMT

No - I hadn't realised it was a problem. Please raise a JIRA or support request detailing as much as possible.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Office Plugin + NTLM + Webdav

mrintegrity — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:55:08 GMT

I tested the nightly build but its not letting me login, I get:

19:53:12,402 DEBUG [org.alfresco.repo.webdav.auth.NTLMAuthenticationFilter] New NTLM auth request from 192.168.3.133 (192.168.3.133:2353)

in the log file but thats all and the office plugin just says Couldnt authenticate with alfresco server.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Alan

Re: Office Plugin + NTLM + Webdav

amcclain — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:29:21 GMT

Hi - was there ever any resolution on this issue?

I am new to Alfresco, so I might be missing some of the subtleties, but I have an installation of Enterprise - v3.0.0 (r11498)running with NTLM SSO enabled as per http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/3.0_Configuring_NTLM. NTLM auth and SSO is working well for the primary Alfresco web client and for Share. I believe that it's working for WebDav as well, as I can download a document from the "View in WebDav" link, and I can browse http://myservername:8080/alfresco/webdav/ OK.

I have not yet tried to setup CIFS / NTLM authentication - it looks like that's a bit more complex, and I am leaving it for later.

However, when I installed the latest (I think) office plugins - alfresco-labs-office2003-addins-3a.1032.zip - and installed, I am unable to authenticate. I have entered in the correct web client and webdav URLs, but I just get the "couldn't authenticate with the Alfresco server" dialog box.

Any updates on the current status of NTLM and Office plugin integration? I would think this would be a very common setup / request in the corporate environment.

EDIT - it looks like I actually am able to browse the CMS and apply tags, etc. from the Office plug-in, so it is sort of working. I still occasionally get the logon box and failure notice, but it doesn't seem to stop me from working with the docs. Is this a known issue?

Thanks! - ATM