topic Re: CIFS on Windows XP in Alfresco Archive

CIFS on Windows XP

nyronian — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:48:32 GMT

I can't seem to find the documentation on how to get CIFS working on Windows XP. Can anybody direct me?I can take the same war (and shared files), deploy them redhat linux and it works fine. I go into windows explorer with \\{hostname}_a, it prompts me to log in and it works.I currently have a dev

Re: CIFS on Windows XP

joglekar — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:41:55 GMT

Hi

Check your catalina.out file to confirm CIFS is started.

If not started you may get error message
Userystem ERROR [alfresco.smb.protocol] CIFS and FTP servers not started due to filesystem initialization error.

In such case CIFS server is not started.

Joglekar

Re: CIFS on Windows XP

nyronian — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:21:24 GMT

The startup is clean. No Error messages related to smb at startup.

Any other ideas? What is the required configuration on my machine to get this working?

Does CIFS not work for a stand-alone machine the alfresco server is located on? Or is this a Windows XP thing? The configuration I have worked fine on Linux (for client machines trying to map to it) My guess is I have to have some driver installed. I have tried the same installation on multiple XP machines and it does not work.

Does Alfresco have a wiki that explains the requirements for an XP installation.

Re: CIFS on Windows XP

tonytony — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:47:30 GMT

news versions of alfresco drop the "_" in the "_A" for the server name. So if your server name is pluto, try \\plotoa\alfresco to see shared directories.

Re: CIFS on Windows XP

nyronian — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:12:38 GMT

Yes, I have checked both to no avail.

Any thoughts?

Re: CIFS on Windows XP

zaizi — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:07:42 GMT

Have you gone through this thread http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=938

Re: CIFS on Windows XP

nyronian — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:25:40 GMT

I had reviewed the post before and never got it working. I missed a detail that is working now.

Thank you so much for your responses. Not sure why it took so long for me to notice the mistake

One of the questions on the above mentioned thread is to get it working when disconnected from the network. I assume it is not possible?

Re: CIFS on Windows XP

sroy — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:10:15 GMT

Its more of a frustration working with CIFS / SAMBA / LDAP /Mapped Drives etc and Alfresco.There is no proper support provided to the FREE or so called "Community Version".Replies given to most of the quiestions by Alfresco Engineers are "get the latest from HEAD and build it yourself ..blah blah" .No wonder I am also here to look for the same answers and I know what FRUSTRATION you would go through and finally END UP WITH no solution just like me.Is this the approach Alfresco going to follow then its better not to use ALfresco which does not work at all. The first article I read about was about "mapped drive etc" and believe me after using it for a month or so THESE DONT WORK.The hope that it will work for past few weeks has gone down the drain and response from Alfresco ever so frustrating..welcome to more frustration !!!

Re: CIFS on Windows XP

rogier_oudshoor — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:15:50 GMT

Sadly, Alfresco != Free Beer.

Re: CIFS on Windows XP

ganeshkolhe — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:54:47 GMT

No more frustration buddy, After reading this post I was also thought in your way, but did not give up.
What I tried ……
1. Enable Debug setting for CIFS server
   log4j.logger.org.alfresco.smb.protocol=debug
   log4j.logger.org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth=debug
   log4j.logger.org.alfresco.acegi=debug
And I got to know that the ${localname} is of 15 Character i.e. abc-569901e23e8 ,and Got message in Debug that "Computer name is more than 15 character so truncating computer name"

I asked our admin to change my computer name and we changed it to "alfresco109". and it worked for me

Here is code for my file-server-custom.xml


<alfresco-config area="file-servers">

   <!– To override the default Alfresco filesystem use replace="true", to –>
   <!– add additional filesystems remove the replace="true" attribute     –>
   
   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Filesystems" replace="true">
      <filesystems>

         <filesystem name="Alfresco">
            <store>workspace://SpacesStore</store>
            <rootPath>/app:company_home</rootPath>
       <disableChangeNotification/>   
            <!– Add a URL file to each folder that links back to the web client –>
            <urlFile>
               <filename>__Alfresco.url</filename>
               <webpath>http://${localname}A:8080/alfresco/</webpath>
            </urlFile>

            <!– Mark locked files as offline –>
            <offlineFiles/>

            <!– Desktop actions –>

            <desktopActions>
               <global>
                  <path>alfresco/desktop/Alfresco.exe</path>
                  <webpath>http://${localname}A:8080/alfresco/</webpath>
               </global>
               <action>
                  <class>org.alfresco.filesys.smb.server.repo.desk.CheckInOutDesktopAction</class>
                  <name>CheckInOut</name>
                  <filename>__CheckInOut.exe</filename>
               </action>
               <action>
                  <class>org.alfresco.filesys.smb.server.repo.desk.JavaScriptDesktopAction</class>
                  <name>JavaScriptURL</name>
                  <filename>__ShowDetails.exe</filename>
                  <script>alfresco/desktop/showDetails.js</script>
                  <attributes>anyFiles</attributes>
                  <preprocess>copyToTarget</preprocess>
               </action>

            </desktopActions>

<!–
            <accessControl default="Write">
               <user name="admin" access="Write"/>
               <address subnet="90.1.0.0" mask="255.255.0.0" access="Write"/>
            </accessControl>
–>
         </filesystem>
        
       <!– AVM virtualization view of all stores/versions for WCM –>
         <avmfilesystem name="AVM">
            <virtualView/>
         </avmfilesystem>
        
      </filesystems>
   </config>

</alfresco-config>
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Map Your Network drive with \\alfresco109A\Alfresco

If this sovles your problem please reply with your comment

Re: CIFS on Windows XP

harishns — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:23:13 GMT

Hi,
I am facing problem with CIFS, to test that I have downloaded latest installation from site (3.2.0 (r2 2440) schema 3300) and installed freshly on my windows XP,
when I try to browse, it is saying "[size=150]Can't find 'file://<server name>a/Alfresco', make sure the path or internet address is correct[/size]"
it is neither throwing any error on the log file even after enabling following lines

log4j.logger.org.alfresco.smb.protocol=debug
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth=debug
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.acegi=debug
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nor it is working :x ,
I am really struggling finding out how to configure CIFS and how to see logs if there is any error

Plz help me

Thanks

Re: CIFS on Windows XP

mrogers — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:32:56 GMT

What's in your alfresco-global.properties file? Have you turned on the cifs interface?

Re: CIFS on Windows XP

harishns — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:44:30 GMT

Thank you for your post
I read somewhere in the forum that by default it will be enabled and it will work, so I was trying with new installation without making any changes. after your post I have added alfresco-global.properties with following details

cifs.enabled=true
cifs.serverName=alfrescoA
cifs.hostannounce=true
cifs.domain=
cifs.broadcast=<My Alfresco server ip>
cifs.localname=${localname}A
cifs.urlfile.prefix=http://${localname}:8080/alfresco/
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Then it started working , I think by default the broadcast details is like

cifs.broadcast=255.255.255.255‍

I feel that was the mistake,

I have LDAP configuration in my server, I hope CIFS will work with LDAP
I want to know is CIFS will work for all platform (like XP, VISTA,Window 7…)? I have tested with XP and VISTA and found working, I have not tested with any other OS, plz let me know if there are any issues, it should not come back after production

Thank again

Re: CIFS on Windows XP

ganeshkolhe — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:18:01 GMT

Please follow this.
http://google-ecm.blogspot.com/2009/11/alfresco-cifs-on-windows-xp.html

Thanks

Re: CIFS on Windows XP

marksss — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:43:00 GMT

Please follow this.
http://google-ecm.blogspot.com/2009/11/alfresco-cifs-on-windows-xp.html

Thanks

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