topic Re: Active Directory and CIFS in Alfresco Archive

Active Directory and CIFS

trelofysikos — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:03:33 GMT

Hello,I'm trying to make Active Directory and CIFS work together in Alfresco Labs3b. I have managed to make Alfresco work with AD and authenticate AD users.Everything seems to work fine except, when i try to open CIFS network folder from windows explorer with a user/pass from AD. It does'nt work for

Re: Active Directory and CIFS

aususer — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:04:27 GMT

I haven't done it via LDAP personally, but just looking to your ldap.propertioes files you will need to set up at least some username items…

ie. pretty sure you have to add some username information in
        # The default principal to use (only used for LDAP sync)
        ldap.authentication.java.naming.security.principal=reader <- this would probably be one of your users on AD?

I believe there is an "enterprise" wiki that might help you…
BTW: you will probably also need to allow some type of authentiction… I am not sure your commenting out of the authentication is the correct method for what you are wanting to do..:
eg (from your post)
             <!– CIFS authentication –>
        <!–
              <authenticator type="alfresco">
             </authenticator>
        –>

You might want to also refer to what we have been doing with AD/CIGS using poassthru where we are hitting brick walls ie. http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15552

Re: Active Directory and CIFS

trelofysikos — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 10:12:15 GMT

I commented out CIFS authentication only to use it seperately in this


<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Filesystem Security">
  <authenticator type="alfresco">
  </authenticator>
</config>
‍‍‍‍‍‍

I also tried to use an LDAP user and pass in the properties file with no luck.

Can you share your configuration, so that i can take some hints ?

Re: Active Directory and CIFS

hannesb — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:04:41 GMT

Labs + ad + cifs + passthru is broken, use kerberos instead!
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Configuring_the_CIFS_and_web_servers_for_Kerberos/AD_integration

Re: Active Directory and CIFS

trelofysikos — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:34:41 GMT

I also tried the kerberos wiki and i get an error in the CIFS authentication.

Is CIFS authentication only possible with the "alfresco" option ?

Is there someone who has a working CIFS+AD cofiguration ? Please share

p.s. If i have alfresco SSL will that be a problem with CIFS auth ?

Re: Active Directory and CIFS

hannesb — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:03:15 GMT

I have a setup working.

kerberos and enterprise auth works. Try to follow the instructions in the url I posted. the realm should be the windows domain uppercase. The rest is correct, kindof

Re: Active Directory and CIFS

trelofysikos — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:06:19 GMT

please share your Working Configuration.
I have tried Kerberos authentication and still not working!