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Accessing CIFS share from remote machines

kilucas — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:27:53 GMT

I have a vanilla installation of community edition 3 (apart from using a non-standard ftp port) on a WinXP pro box. All modes of file access (http, webdav, ftp) that I've tried work fine except for CIFS.I can access the alfresco and AVM shares from Windows Explorer on the server itself via \\<ser

Re: Accessing CIFS share from remote machines

mcraven — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:08:26 GMT

I am running Windows Server 2003 R2 and am seeing exactly the same thing. I can access the repository using Windows Explorer from the server but not from any other windows machine. When I try I get the following message:

Windows cannot find '\\servernameA\Alfresco'. Check the spelling and try again, or try searching for the item by clicking the Start button and then clicking Search.

If I do search the network I can find "servername", but not "servernameA". Does anyone know how to correct this issue on Windows servers?

Regards,
Mark C.

Re: Accessing CIFS share from remote machines

daedalus — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:12:56 GMT

Hi Mark,

Did you find a fix to your problem. I have exactly the same issue, and it seems we're not alone.

I'm interested to hear if this problem exists in Enterprise, as I would have looked to upgrade but obviously not if this function doesn't work for us.

I can get CIFS to work on the installed machine and assign a drive letter, it works fine. But no matter what I can't access it remotely.

I'm interested to hear if you or anybody else has progressed at all with this issue.

Many thanks.

Re: Accessing CIFS share from remote machines

kilucas — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:41:05 GMT

Sorry, I never got to the bottom of this. A bug in Share made it unusable for the time being. Problems with the server box then meant I had to rebuild it and I'm parceling out my apps across servers differently now with Alfresco going to a Linux box using Alfresco v3.3. I'll be interested to see if the CIFS or Share problems recur in the new environment. But meanwhile I'm afraid that I'm insightless.
Good luck
Kevin

Re: Accessing CIFS share from remote machines

daedalus — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:29:06 GMT

Thats a shame, i'm verging on giving up …which is unlike me!

I found this patch but i'm not sure if its the fix we're looking for as it's a bit over my head to be honest, i'm a tech author not a developer unfortunately.

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-229

If you think this may be the answer can you please let me know. I don't even know where i would install the patch!!

Jake

Re: Accessing CIFS share from remote machines

mcraven — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:20:02 GMT

I am running Alfresco Community Edition V3.3 under Windows Server 2003 R2. Here is what I did:

1) Create file-server-custom.xml in C:\Alfresco\tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\extension with the following content (substitute your own {localname}):

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

<!– To override the default Alfresco filesystem use replace="true", to –>
<!– add additional filesystems remove the replace="true" attribute –>

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Filesystems" replace="true">
<filesystems>

<filesystem name="Alfresco">
<store>workspace://SpacesStore</store>
<rootPath>/app:company_home</rootPath>
<disableChangeNotification/> 
<!– Add a URL file to each folder that links back to the web client –>
<urlFile>
<filename>__Alfresco.url</filename>
<webpath>http://${localname}A:8080/alfresco/</webpath>
</urlFile>

<!– Mark locked files as offline –>
<offlineFiles/>

<!– Desktop actions –>

<desktopActions>
<global>
<path>alfresco/desktop/Alfresco.exe</path>
<webpath>http://${localname}A:8080/alfresco/</webpath>
</global>
<action>
<class>org.alfresco.filesys.smb.server.repo.desk.CheckInOutDesktopAction</class>
<name>CheckInOut</name>
<filename>__CheckInOut.exe</filename>
</action>
<action>
<class>org.alfresco.filesys.smb.server.repo.desk.JavaScriptDesktopAction</class>
<name>JavaScriptURL</name>
<filename>__ShowDetails.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 –>
<avmfilesystem name="AVM">
<virtualView/>
</avmfilesystem>

</filesystems>
</config>

</alfresco-config>
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2) Copied win32netbios.dll from C:\Alfresco\bin to C:\Windows\System32

3) Restarted Alfresco

After doing this I could access the Alfresco repository from other Windows machines using Windows Explorer.

Regards,
Mark C.

Re: Accessing CIFS share from remote machines

savah — Tue, 04 May 2010 07:11:57 GMT

Good morning all.

We've come across some problems with Alfresco 2.1 on a windows 2003 machine. Alfresco runs at this server which is a part of our corporate domain. While the CIFS share (servername_a) works well for people accessing it from computers which belong to this domain, we cannot access it from computers which are not a part of this domain. Any ideas of how this can be solved?

Re: Accessing CIFS share from remote machines

agey — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:21:57 GMT

Hi savah,

I have the same problem. Did you get fix it?