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CIFS bug?

pcmonk — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:19:09 GMT

I ran into an odd thing today. I am testing ver 3 final. I was testing permissions on CIFS folders. I would disconnect my CIFS drive share on my PC and then go into the Web Client via the Alfresco PC, change my role and then re-create the CIFS share on my PC to test. On the 3rd or 4th cycle I wa

Re: CIFS bug?

nadaoneal — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:01:14 GMT

Hi pcmonk, I just asked the same question the other day, and got this response:

The name of Alfresco's filesystem needs to be different from the filesystem exposed by windows.

Someone in the depths of time came up with a simple solution which is to call the Alfresco file system <hostname>_A to make it different. More recently the underscore disappeared and it became <hostname>A.

You can change your Alfresco file system configuration to name your drive whatever you want for example "BUFFY" will work just as well as <hostname>A. But it does need to be unique on your network.

So in a way, the answer is "because".

Re: CIFS bug?

pcmonk — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:15:26 GMT

Thanks! I'll check your post and look for the info to change that share name. That may clear up the problems I am having with the CIFS share being unstable.