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CIFS and LDAP in 3.2?

gronfelt — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:10:50 GMT

I'm running Alfresco 3.2 CE in Linux and I'm trying to configure CIFS. This is my alfresco-global.properties:## CIFS#—————–cifs.enabled=truecifs.serverName=hostnamecifs.hostannounce=true‍‍‍‍‍‍That works just fine when I use Alfresco's internal authentication, but when I disable that and enable LDAP

Re: CIFS and LDAP in 3.2?

dward — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:22:49 GMT

Unfortunately, an LDAP server is not capable of supporting CIFS authentication, because it needs NTLM-like authentication.

So your only option would be to chain another authentication subsystem, e.g. alfrescoNtlm or passthru.

For example

authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm:alfrescoNtlm,ldap1:ldap

would allow the internal alfresco users (but not the ldap users) to authenticate with CIFS.

Re: CIFS and LDAP in 3.2?

dward — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:25:00 GMT

I should add that if your LDAP server is Active Directory, it would make more sense to chain the passthru authentication subsytem to directly authenticate CIFS users with the backend server.