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Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

lpiguet — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:19:28 GMT

After some migration pains, I was able to successfully enable Alfresco Enterprise 3.0 with users and groups coming from OpenLDAP (using clear text passwords), and a working CIFS.I thought I would post this here. If people are interested, post a reply and I'll post more detailed steps and instruction

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

vinuraga — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:53:42 GMT

Hi

Am using Alfresco 3.0 + Active directory + CIFS am getting " No PassthruDetails for WSNB1 " when am trying to access through CIFS,

If you send me the configuration that you made i will try for my case if it works it will be good.

Thanks in Advance,

Vinod Raga
Cignex Technologies
India

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

lpiguet — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:02:28 GMT

Ah! I forgot to mention I am NOT using passthrough authentication…

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

mrojas73 — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:06:24 GMT

Ah! I forgot to mention I am NOT using passthrough authentication…

Do you have chaining working for the local admin account?

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

tgck — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:49:23 GMT

…
I thought I would post this here. If people are interested, post a reply and I'll post more detailed steps and instructions.

Did you adapt you ldap schema and redirect the cifs session against ldap?
I would like to see your solution.

Thanks,

Torsten

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

vinuraga — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:30:09 GMT

Hi,
Even I would like to know how you have configured CIFS to authenticate thru LDAP.
Can you please share the files that you have configured to achive CIFS authentication via LDAP.

Vinod Raga
Cignex Technologies
India

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

lpiguet — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:21:02 GMT

Ok, let me get this ready, I'll post.

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

tretyak999 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:53:43 GMT

Hi,

I'm also very excited how did you managed to make it work!

Thanks in advance!

Peter

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

kdperuta — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:18:57 GMT

great! me and a lot of other people are waiting for this!

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

vinuraga — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:08:02 GMT

Hi,

I have changed my alfresco version to 2.1.2 + Active Directory + Cifs,
it is working fine now, but still problem with Alfresco 3.0 version.

Vinod Raga
Cignex Technologies
India

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

mrojas73 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:51:06 GMT

So the OP never told us how he got it working I guess?

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

mindthegab — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:24:31 GMT

Any gotchas here?

I'm having problems with share and searching users…

Strange way of managing community expectations though, why don't you just share your findings? (talking to the starter of this topic)

Thanks in advance for the effort anyways…!

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

mrojas73 — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:58:15 GMT

After some migration pains, I was able to successfully enable Alfresco Enterprise 3.0 with users and groups coming from OpenLDAP (using clear text passwords), and a working CIFS.

I thought I would post this here. If people are interested, post a reply and I'll post more detailed steps and instructions.

Cheers,
Laurent

Nonsense post, thank you for nothing.

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

cyberheap — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:40:04 GMT

bump…

Anyone successfully configured the mentioned setup?

I have the same setup, and authentication works fine (chaining: Alfresco + LDAP).

CIFS works for Alfresco users, but not for the ones in OpenLDAP.

Is it even recommendable(possible) to enable CIFS with OpenLDAP+LDAP,
or would it be better to use something like Kerberos or CAS?

Thanks,
Primoz

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

scott_holliday — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:58:14 GMT

Anyone know if this is possible yet?

Specifically with Alfresco 3.2?

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

ghilteras — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:02:02 GMT

it doesnt.

alfresco community edition 3.2 doesnt work on openldap because it ignores directives you pass on properties

if you'd download the latest nightly build with the same properties that doesnt work on 3.2 it would work instantly.

problem is that the latest nightly is not a stable version

i wonder if there is a way to hotfix the community version 3.2 uploaded on the website in order to make it read custom configurations from global properties, so we could use a stable and working version of community alfresco + ldap

cheers

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

brice — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:23:16 GMT

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if you'd download the latest nightly build with the same properties that doesnt work on 3.2 it would work instantly.

…

I had to do the same with alfresco.war (schema 2338) to allow language extension to be taken into account using web-client-custom-config.xml

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

ghilteras — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:51:56 GMT

i tried to copy the latest alfresco.war on the 3.2 community edition but still it ignores anything related to ldap authentication/syncronization written in both

tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties
and
tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/ldap-authentication.properties
and
tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco-global.properties

it's just impossible to make alfresco read any of them.

upon authentication i always get a general error:

16:51:18,310 ERROR [org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractRuntime] Exception from executeScript - redirecting to status template error: 09060004 Login failed
org.alfresco.web.scripts.WebScriptException: 09060004 Login failed

THE SAME configuration works perfectly on the latest build

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

scott_holliday — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:20:31 GMT

I've managed to get my LDAP users authenticating with CIFS on latest Nightly Build.
However, i had to use the following chain:

authentication.chain=passthru1:passthru,ldap1:ldap‍

Thing is the build is not stable at all and some key components of share don't work. Like uploading files.. ??

All the configurations were put into alfresco-global.properties and seem to work fine.
I based my configuration of this thread http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=21091

Few things to note, users have to login to share before they can use CIFS (Account must not be created until this happens)
Also im receiving a heap of "web.scripts.DeclarativeRegistry" Warnings and the same Login Failed Error. Among others.

But the main thing is i achieved what i wanted to, and get LDAP authenticating CIFS.

Re: Alfresco 3.0 + OpenLDAP + CIFS: Working

ghilteras — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:57:44 GMT

it's normal that works because with the latest nightly build putting custom configuration on global properties is fixed

but it's not a stable version, i cannot use the latest build on my production env

so i repeat that what we need is just a hotfix on the stable community version to make it read global properties correctly because uploading the latest alfresco.war is not enough