topic Re: CIFS on internet domain problem in Alfresco Archive

CIFS on internet domain problem

fthamura — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:30:51 GMT

i test alfresco in our intranet and run, we just put _A to our server name, but, now i want to put the alfresco server on the net, and i want everyone can access using internet domain, my domain is http://www.intercitra.com.anyone can help?

Re: CIFS on internet domain problem

gary_spencer — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:19:29 GMT

Hi,

CIFS is not a very good protocol to run over the Internet, it's design for LANs rather than WANs as it's not too good when there is latency within the network connection.

What about using WebDAV for Internet access ?.

Cheers

Gary

Re: CIFS on internet domain problem

fthamura — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 04:34:02 GMT

So, if use WebDAV, what should I do? I just want to make the alfresco work like CIFS, and run as a drive, like Z or X in my pc.

can we do that?

Re: CIFS on internet domain problem

fthamura — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:52:11 GMT

WebDAV work here, and now i want to make it drive.

this is my webdav url.

http://www.intercitra.com:8080/alfresco/webdav

FRans

Re: CIFS on internet domain problem

gary_spencer — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:19:09 GMT

Hi,

You should be able to access the CIFS server using either the host name or IP address via the Start->Run menu using a UNC path of either :-

\\www.intercitra.com
\\<ip_address>

You can also add an entry to the LMHOSTS file in C:\<Windows>\System32\drivers\etc (you might need to create it). Add an entry for the Alfresco CIFS server :-

<ip_address> ALFRESCO

Then you should be able to use \\Alfresco as the UNC path.

Cheers

Gary

Re: CIFS on internet domain problem

fthamura — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:26:39 GMT

I got this, when run the Alfresco in Root privilege on Linux.

08:23:43,053 ERROR [protocol] CIFS server configuration error, Failed to determine local domain/workgroup
org.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Failed to determine local domain/workgroup
        at org.alfresco.filesys.server.config.ServerConfiguration.getLocalDomainName(ServerConfiguration.java:2253)
        at org.alfresco.filesys.server.config.ServerConfiguration.processCIFSServerConfig(ServerConfiguration.java:587)
        at org.alfresco.filesys.server.config.ServerConfiguration.init(ServerConfiguration.java:425)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeCustomInitMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:971)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:941)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:334)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:222)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:146)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:277)
        at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:310)
        at

Re: CIFS on internet domain problem

gary_spencer — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:49:53 GMT

Hi,

In the file-servers.xml configuration file (in WEB-INF/classes/alfresco) you'll need to set the domain/workgroup that the CIFS server announces itself to. This should be the Windows domain/workgroup not a dotted DNS domain name, eg.

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="CIFS Server">
      <host name="${localname}A" domain="WORKGROUP"/>
      <comment>Alfresco CIFS Server</comment>
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Cheers

Gary