topic Re: CIFS Server not starting in Alfresco Archive

CIFS Server not starting

ds-crcpress — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:39:03 GMT

I am having some trouble getting CIFS working. I have Aflresco Community hosted on a FreeBSD system. The following is my configuration:<alfresco-config area="file-servers"> <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Filesystems" replace="true"> <filesystems> <

Re: CIFS Server not starting

jottley — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:35:07 GMT

You've got a lot mixed and matched here.

Take a look at the file-servers.xml file in tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco or file-servers-custom.xml in tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension (make sure you make your changes in the extension directory – In fact you _should_ make your custom configuration changes in file-servers-custom.xml). Use those as you templates. But basically you should have a section that defines the filesystems (ie what you want exposed from the repository) and another section that defines your CIFS server.

Example (not complete config element):

 <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Filesystems">
          <filesystems>
                  
                 <!– Alfresco repository access shared filesystem –>
         <filesystem name="Alfresco">
            <store>workspace://SpacesStore</store>
            <rootPath>/app:company_home</rootPath>
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Example (not complete config element):

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="CIFS Server">
          <serverEnable enabled="true"/>
      <host name="${localname}A"/>
      <comment>Alfresco CIFS Server</comment>

      <!– Set to the broadcast mask for the subnet –>
      <broadcast>255.255.255.255</broadcast>
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Re: CIFS Server not starting

ds-crcpress — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:40:12 GMT

The first code that I posted was my shared/classes/alfresco/extension/file-servers-custom.xml contents. When I choose replace="true" that only replaces the configuration that matches the name correct? In other words, this won't neglect the default FTP Server, AVM server, and Filesystem configuration right?

To get this started I just copied the configuration from the webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/file-servers.xml file and customized it in the extension directory.

-David

Re: CIFS Server not starting

jottley — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:08:26 GMT

Correct, replacing just the one section will not affect the other defaults. But what you have in there belongs in the CIFS Server config element, not in the Filesystems config element.

Re: CIFS Server not starting

ds-crcpress — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:11:24 GMT

Ah, yes I just noticed that a few minutes ago when I compared the two files side by side and realized it was defined in the filesystems block. ops:

Restarting now to test…

Re: CIFS Server not starting

ds-crcpress — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:34:56 GMT

Okay, it seems to be working… sort of.

I try to connect via Windows Explorer to \\{ipofhost}\alfresco but every username/pass I type fails. I defined the domain as ALFRESCO. So when windows prompts me, I try ALFRESCO\{username} as well as just {username}, hostnameA\{username}, etc. Nothing seems to work.

I tried accessing it from a machine in the same network location and no luck at all. So I tried putting Alfresco in the same workgroup as the remote machine and its viewable (I can get a login prompt) but it still doesn't let me in.

Any idea?

Thanks,

David

Re: CIFS Server not starting

jottley — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:10:50 GMT

Are you using an LDAP backend?

Re: CIFS Server not starting

ds-crcpress — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:34:56 GMT

No LDAP, it is using the default authentication mechanism provided by Alfresco.

Thanks,

David

Re: CIFS Server not starting

jottley — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:40:43 GMT

What version of Windows?

Re: CIFS Server not starting

ds-crcpress — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:43:26 GMT

I am trying to access the share from a Windows XP Pro machine, and a Windows 2003 Terminal Server. Alfresco itself is running on FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE.

-David

Re: CIFS Server not starting

jottley — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:50:45 GMT

a couple of ideas here: Firewalls, are there ports open on the BSD machine to allow connections on 139 and 445? And can you look and see if there are any errors in the log file when you try to connect?

Re: CIFS Server not starting

ds-crcpress — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:33:24 GMT

I enabled logging for SMB/CIFS, per your suggestion about checking for errors. I got the following error message:

CIFS server configuration error, NetBIOS SMB, TCP/IP SMB or Win32 NetBIOS must be enabled

I did a quick search on google and found this: http://tech.barwick.de/java/alfresco-enabling-cifs-in-freebsd.html which I tried and now it is working perfectly.

The gist of the article is that you remove the platforms attribute for <tcpipSMB /> and <netBIOSSMB />, and that seems to prevent platform checking and starts services anyway.

I should have enabled logging on SMB from the start. ops:

Thank you very much for your assistance.

-David

Re: CIFS Server not starting

jottley — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:59:23 GMT

Nice find! I'm going to have to file that one away.