CIFS on linux with Samba

trakhan — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:45:57 GMT

Hi.Is there a way to setup Alfresco alongside SAMBA server running on linux? The problem is, that we will be installing Alfresco on existing linux server, which is used as a File server (with use of samba) and we would like to allow users to add content from windows the easiest way possible (which i

Re: CIFS on linux with Samba

pmonks — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:20:37 GMT

To allow two CIFS servers to run on the same machine you'll need to move one of them to a non-standard port, so that they don't conflict. For Alfresco, this is controlled via the following properties (which should be added to ${ALFRESCO_HOME}/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties):

cifs.tcpipSMB.port=1445
cifs.netBIOSSMB.namePort=1137
cifs.netBIOSSMB.datagramPort=1138
cifs.netBIOSSMB.sessionPort=1139‍‍‍‍

(I've added 1000 to each of the default CIFS port numbers - of course you may choose whichever ports you wish)

Now that said, because of limitations in some CIFS clients (notably the one built into Microsoft Windows), moving a CIFS server to non-standard ports basically makes it unavailable to those clients, as it is not possible to configure them to connect to those non-standard ports. For this reason running two CIFS servers on the same machine is not very common.

You may be able to work around this via DFS [1] - basically having Samba act as the "front end" to both the Samba shares and the Alfresco share.

Cheers,
Peter

[1] http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/msdfs.html

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