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Labs 3 Share -- users site population fails using AD auth

ofrxnz — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:00:27 GMT

In Labs 3 (A, B & C) I have had a recurring issue in Share.When using Alfresco's internal authentication mechanism and a non-admin user logs in, everything works fine and Share is able to populate the Sites a user is part of. Also, on the "Sites" page the "Join and Leave" buttons work.When I en

Re: Labs 3 Share -- users site population fails using AD auth

ofrxnz — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:01:54 GMT

To update this, Users created in alfresco work. So, It appears NTLM users and LDAP users have some properties that are different than users created within alfresco.

Does anyone know what would cause NTLM users to look different to the webscript components than the internal Alfresco users?

Re: Labs 3 Share -- users site population fails using AD auth

ofrxnz — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:08:16 GMT

The problem was caused by the use of a dot in the username

Re: Labs 3 Share -- users site population fails using AD auth

jeshurun — Sat, 08 May 2010 08:52:25 GMT

We have the exact same problem and we don't have any special characters in the username. Alfresco works fine, but when a non-admin logs into share, the above mentioned error pops up on the sites page. Also, the my calendar, my workspaces and my documents dashlets don't work. My calendar throws an Exception with an access denied somewhere along the way. We are using OpenLDAP for authentication. However, the users are able to collaborate on sites and everything works normally on the site dashboard. Any insights would be greatly appreciated. We are using Alfresco 3.2r and running on Ubuntu server with MySQL DB

Thanks,
Jeshurun