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CIFS in Alfresco 3.0

jlabuelo — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:42:00 GMT

Good afternoon allWe just installed Alfresco 3.0 Labs to check it out and see if we migrate from alfresco 2.3. We have installed it and it works fine for the moment, however there is something we dont get to work. "CIFS".Following the instructions in the book "Alfresco - Entreprise Content Managemen

Re: CIFS in Alfresco 3.0

mrogers — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:14:19 GMT

Remove the underscore character. i.e try \\MachineNameA

Re: CIFS in Alfresco 3.0

jlabuelo — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:55:56 GMT

Hi there

I have tried your suggestion but when I try to map a folder using "\\MachineNameA\alfresco", what the system does is trying to conect to my machine as an Invitee… not to the Alfresco repository..

Anything else I must uncomment in the file-servers.sml file?

Thanks a lot in advance

Re: CIFS in Alfresco 3.0

jlabuelo — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:58:54 GMT

I have solved it, What I have done is changing the name of the pc, restarted the machine and write again "\\NewMachinameA\alfresco" and now worked fine. However the only issue is that I can only get connected mapping the drive in the same pc.

What should I do to map a network drive to my alfresco repository from an external pc connected to the network? I have tried using the local ip address but did not work

"\\192.168.2.13A\alfresco"

Imagine that I have an external server running alfresco at port 8083, with private IP address 11.111.111 what should I write to get the network drive mapped?

Thanks again for your help and time

Re: CIFS in Alfresco 3.0

jlabuelo — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:16:36 GMT

Hi there

None can explain me how should I do to connect a network drive in my pc, if my alfresco server is not in my local area network?

any help will be much appreciate it…. any place or document I shall review?

Thanks a lot

Re: CIFS in Alfresco 3.0

jlabuelo — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:16:47 GMT

Re: CIFS in Alfresco 3.0

loftux — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:29:58 GMT

"\\192.168.2.13A\alfresco"

You should remove the a A and only use the ip-adress.
Or server name with the A appendend, ie SERVERA

Re: CIFS in Alfresco 3.0

jlabuelo — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:53:04 GMT

Hi Loftux

Thanks a lot for the answer… I guess this is supossig that I use the port 8080 for Alfresco, if I use another port like 8443 for https, shall I write the "\\192.168.2.13:8443\alfresco"??

Thanks a lot again :wink:

Re: CIFS in Alfresco 3.0

jlabuelo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:22:03 GMT

Hi there

Let me explain my doubt with my configuration as an example.

I have a server installed out of our LAN network, in another geographic location. This server "ServerA" has a static IP address 11.111.111. In this server I have two virtual machines using VMWare and Ubuntu, and NAT, so they both use the same IP address than "ServerA" 11.111.111. Lets call then VirtualServer_1 and VirtualServer_2. I have installed Alfresco 3 in both virtual servers, so what I have done using the NAT configuration of ServerA is redirecting port TCP 8081 for http to VirtualServer_1 and port TCP 8082 to VirtualServer_2. Alfresco Web system works fine.

I would like to get access to both repositories using CIFS (if possible) but dont know exactly how.

Two questions:

a) Before of this configuration I had Alfresco 3 installed in ServerA, so I tried to Map a network drive to this server "\\11.111.111\alfresco", but I always got the error message saying that the network was not reachable. I have tried this also in our LAN and only worked with the name of the server "\\NameServerA\alfresco", but if we use the ip address it does not work. ("\\192.168.2.13\alfresco" does not work and "\\192.168.2.13A\alfresco" does not work either.

b) Once we know how to connect to Alfresco using CIFS, using the IP address to map the network drive, how can we do to configure the situation I explained above where we have two virtual servers using the same IP address??
We have tried "\\11.111.111:8081\alfresco" but did not work…. (sorry if what we tried is too stupid).

In the previous answer from Loftux it is mentioned that we should only use the ip address to map a network drive to alfresco repository using CIFs but we dont get it to work in Alfresco 3 following that instructions…. (only with server name in our LAN) any other file we should configure that we can be missing??

Any suggestion will be very welcome!, thanks a lot in advance

Re: CIFS in Alfresco 3.0

loftux — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:45:27 GMT

CIFS is a different protocol that HTTP, so it has nothing to do with with your port change. The port that are in use for CIFS is given by your windows client.
So you should not specify a port number.
Read more here http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Configuration and http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Category:CIFS

Re: CIFS in Alfresco 3.0

jlabuelo — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:23:17 GMT

Hi all again

First of all thanks for the help when we tried to configure Alfresco CIFS over a Windows Server. Now we are trying to move our Alfresco Server to an Ubuntu machine and we are finding some problems when we try to configure CIFS in this server and access the Alfresco repository from Windows clients.

We have followed the documentation in the wiki and also the Installation and Configuration manual for 3.0 but still get some problems.

Let me explain you what we have done:

We have installed Alfresco 3.0 over an Ubuntu Linux Server. Application works fine but now we would like to get CIFS to work so users can connect to the repository from Windows Network Mapped Folders

To Configure CIFS we have followed these steps

a) Open with FireStarted ports 137-445 (UDP and TCP) and 1137-1445 (TCP and UDP).

b) We have configured the file-servers-custom.xml in shared/classes/alfresco/extension

<alfresco-config area="file-servers"> 
<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="CIFS Server" replace="true">
     <serverEnable enabled="true"/>
      <host name="${localname}A" domain="OWCVMWARES"/>
     <comment>Alfresco CIFS Server</comment>

      <!– Set to the broadcast mask for the subnet –>
      <broadcast>255.255.255.0</broadcast>

      <!– Use Java socket based NetBIOS over TCP/IP and native SMB on linux –>
      <tcpipSMB platforms="linux,solaris,macosx"/>
      <netBIOSSMB platforms="linux,solaris,macosx"/>

      <!– Can be mapped to non-privileged ports, then use firewall rules to forward
          requests from the standard ports –>
            
      <tcpipSMB port="1445" platforms="linux,solaris,macosx"/>
      <netBIOSSMB sessionPort="1139" namePort="1137" datagramPort="1138" platforms="linux,solaris,macosx"/>
            
      <hostAnnounce interval="5"/>

      <!– Use Win32 NetBIOS interface on Windows –>
      <Win32NetBIOS/>
      <Win32Announce interval="5"/>

<!–
      <WINS>
         <primary>1.2.3.4</primary>
         <secondary>5.6.7.8</secondary>
      </WINS>
–>
      <sessionDebug flags="Negotiate,Socket"/>


<!–

            <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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c) Uncommented the Desktop Actions in file-servers.xml in alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco as we dont see them in the file-server-custom.xml

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



   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="CIFS Server">

     <serverEnable enabled="true"/>

      <host name="${cifs.localname}A" domain="${cifs.domain}"/> 
   

      <comment>Alfresco CIFS Server</comment>



      <!– Set to the broadcast mask for the subnet –>

      <broadcast>${cifs.broadcast}</broadcast>



      <!– Use Java socket based NetBIOS over TCP/IP and native SMB on linux –>

      <tcpipSMB platforms="linux,solaris,macosx"/>

      <netBIOSSMB platforms="linux,solaris,macosx"/>



      <!– Can be mapped to non-privileged ports, then use firewall rules to forward

          requests from the standard ports –>

           

      <tcpipSMB port="445" platforms="linux,solaris,macosx"/>

      <netBIOSSMB sessionPort="139" namePort="137" datagramPort="138" platforms="linux,solaris,macosx"/>

     

       

      <hostAnnounce interval="5"/>



      <!– Use Win32 NetBIOS interface on Windows –>

      <Win32NetBIOS/>

      <Win32Announce interval="5"/>



      <!– CIFS authentication –>

      <authenticator type="enterprise">

      </authenticator>

      

<!–

      <WINS>

         <primary>1.2.3.4</primary>

         <secondary>5.6.7.8</secondary>

      </WINS>

–>

      <sessionDebug flags="Negotiate,Socket"/>

   </config>



   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="FTP Server">

     <serverEnable enabled="true"/>

     

     <!– Run on a non-privileged port –>

     

     <port>1121</port>

     



      <!– FTP authentication –>

      <authenticator type="alfresco"/>

           

<!–      <debug flags="File,Search,Error,Directory,Info,DataPort"/> –>

   </config>

   

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="NFS Server">

     <serverEnable enabled="false"/>

   </config>

   

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Filesystems">

     <filesystems>

        

       <!– Alfresco repository access shared filesystem –>

         <filesystem name="Alfresco">

            <store>workspace://SpacesStore</store>

            <rootPath>/app:company_home</rootPath>



         <!– Add a URL file to each folder that links back to the web client –>

         <urlFile>

               <filename>__AlfrescoClient.url</filename>

               <webpath>http://${localname}:8080/alfresco/</webpath>

            </urlFile>



         <!– Mark locked files as offline –> 

          <offlineFiles/>



         <!– Desktop actions –>

         <!– Uses a client-side application to trigger a server-side action                         –>

         <!–   Echo - displays a message echoed from the server                                     –>

         <!–   URL  - launches a URL via the Windows shell                                          –>

         <!–   CmdLine - launches the Notepad application                                           –>

         <!–   CheckInOut - checks files in/out, drag and drop files onto the application           –>

         <!–   JavaScript - run a server-side script                                                –>

         <!–   JavaScriptURL - server-side script that generates a URL to the folder using a ticket –>

         <!–                   to avoid having to logon                                             –>





         <desktopActions>

            <global>

                    <path>alfresco/desktop/Alfresco.exe</path>

               <webpath>http://${localname}:8080/alfresco/</webpath>

            </global>

            <action>

               <class>org.alfresco.filesys.repo.desk.EchoDesktopAction</class>

               <name>Echo</name>

                 <filename>__AlfrescoEcho.exe</filename>

            </action>

            <action>

               <class>org.alfresco.filesys.repo.desk.URLDesktopAction</class>

               <name>URL</name>

                 <filename>__AlfrescoURL.exe</filename>

            </action>

            <action>

               <class>org.alfresco.filesys.repo.desk.CmdLineDesktopAction</class>

               <name>CmdLine</name>

                 <filename>__AlfrescoCmd.exe</filename>

            </action>

            <action>

               <class>org.alfresco.filesys.repo.desk.CheckInOutDesktopAction</class>

               <name>CheckInOut</name>

                 <filename>__AlfrescoCheckInOut.exe</filename>

            </action>

            <action>

               <class>org.alfresco.filesys.repo.desk.JavaScriptDesktopAction</class>

               <name>JavaScript</name>

               <filename>__AlfrescoScript.exe</filename>

               <script>alfresco/desktop/dumpRequest.js</script>

               <attributes>anyFiles, multiplePaths , allowNoParams</attributes>

               <preprocess>confirm, copyToTarget</preprocess>

            </action>

            <action>

               <class>org.alfresco.filesys.repo.desk.JavaScriptDesktopAction</class>

               <name>JavaScriptURL</name>

               <filename>__AlfrescoDetails.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 –>

         <!– virtual view can be any of the following: normal, site, staging, author, preview –>

         <avmfilesystem name="AVM">

            <virtualView stores="site,staging,author" />

         </avmfilesystem>

         

      </filesystems>

   </config>



   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Filesystem Security">

      <!– Domain mappings used for passthri authentication routing –>

      <!–

      <DomainMappings>

         <Domain name="ALFRESCO" subnet="192.168.1.0" mask="192.168.1.255"/>

      </DomainMappings>

      –>

      

      <!– Custom share mapper when multi-tenancy is enabled –>

      <!–

     <shareMapper type="multi-tenant">

       <debug/>

     </shareMapper>

      –>

      

<!–

      <globalAccessControl default="None">

         <user name="admin" access="Write"/>

         <address ip="90.1.0.90" access="Write"/>

      </globalAccessControl>

–>

   </config>





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we checked that our machine name is in /etc/host file

We have rebooted the Ubuntu server, and launched Alfresco, however when we try to map a network folder from a Windows XP customer we are not able to get access to alfresco neither with "\\192.168.2.12\alfresco" nor "\\Etcheverria2A\alfresco" where Etcheverria2 is the name of the Ubuntu Server.

Could you please let us know what we are doing wrong?

Thanks a lot in advance!!

Re: CIFS in Alfresco 3.0

clancydamon — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:25:37 GMT

I have an identical problem to jlabuelo. We are using Alfresco 3.2r, also on a VMware Ubuntu host (Sun VirtualBox, Ubuntu 9.4). I've followed all of the steps mentioned in the install guide and the wiki, and so far nothing is working. We are not running firewalls on our Windows machines (both WinXP and Win7). The hell of it is that windows seems able to see the host machine. Using the IP address (our host is internal on our network, so the subnet is the same as the windows machines trying to access it) while trying to map the drive, something is found and we are prompted for confirmation. Typing in our Alfresco username and password does not work. In fact, the next prompt lets us know that it is trying to find the username and password on the local computer, ie Name = WindowsXP_Comp\alfresco_user. We've tried changing the domain to the IP address, the Alfresco DB name, the Ubuntu host name (which was added to our hosts file), and so forth. Nothing allows access through CIFS. It's been a couple of months since the last response in this thread. Anyone have any ideas? We're stumped.

Re: CIFS in Alfresco 3.0

mrogers — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:42:27 GMT

If you are using 3.2r then following instructions for 3.0 will not work.

Re: CIFS in Alfresco 3.0

loftux — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:22:54 GMT

If you are using 3.2r then following instructions for 3.0 will not work.

And the best choice to look at would be http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Subsystem