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CIFS setup for existing tomcat

geoffrey1211 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:54:35 GMT

Hi,I installed tomcat 6, and then deployed alfresco.war w/o any big problems (some minor exceptions do appear in the log, but those mainly have to do with Win32NetBIOS, which did not interfere with what I wanted to do). But now when I need to enable CIFS, I cannot get CIFS to work, and I suspect t

Re: CIFS setup for existing tomcat

geoffrey1211 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:10:39 GMT

I am using Alfresco Community Lab 3.
Here's my config in "file-servers-custom.xml":

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

   <serverEnable enabled="true"/>

      <host name="${localname}A" domain="WORKGROUP" />
      <comment>Alfresco CIFS Server</comment>

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

      <!– 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"/>

      <!– 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>

Re: CIFS setup for existing tomcat

geoffrey1211 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:49:06 GMT

can someone please help?
desperately need help here…

Re: CIFS setup for existing tomcat

zaizi — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:42:43 GMT

From the wiki

If you are running on Windows and want to use CIFS, you also need to copy Win32Utils.dll and Win32NetBIOS.dll into the env.TOMCAT_HOME/bin. The Alfresco installer, which contains a copy of Tomcat already, has these DLLs in place but if you have been following these instructions and have installed Tomcat yourself, they will not be present.

Download the tomcat bundle zip for your Alfresco version and get the DLLs from in there.

Re: CIFS setup for existing tomcat

geoffrey1211 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:15:44 GMT

thank you! it works now.

with all the wiki docs laying around, sometimes it's hard to find the exact piece of answer that i'm looking for.

a better explained alfresco download page with more installation options is necessary, i believe.

Re: CIFS setup for existing tomcat

zaizi — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:48:24 GMT

Indeed. You can search through wiki using Google by also adding "site:wiki.alfresco.com" to your query.