topic Re: CIFS Issues / Firewall Ports in Alfresco Archive

CIFS Issues / Firewall Ports

rwright88 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:14:07 GMT

I have a firewall on the router on my network, and I can forward the port to the alfresco server. When I do that I can get the CIFS Server to work (i.e. I can map a network drive). However, after that, I am unable to connect to the existing (non-CIFS) shares on that server computer. I think I am

Re: CIFS Issues / Firewall Ports

gronfelt — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:51:48 GMT

Exactly what type of shares are the non-CIFS shares?

Re: CIFS Issues / Firewall Ports

rwright88 — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:49:44 GMT

They are standard shared folders from a "server" computer running Vista. I have added these as network connections on my "client" computer and I am able to access these until I forward port 445 to the server computer. You will probably notice my newbie spin on working with CIFS, the firewall and ports required.

Re: CIFS Issues / Firewall Ports

norgan — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:06:26 GMT

Basically you are running two services, trying to provide the same service on one mashine. Thats why Alfresco uses the "<servername>A" for accessing the CIFS shares.
1) Search the forum for other CIFS topics, someone mentioned deactivating Printer sharing for this to work correctly.
2) make sure to use the correct name
3) you it is a configuration trick, make sure to share it in the wiki.

I hope that helps
Norgan