topic Re: Cannot get CIFS to work? in Alfresco Archive

Cannot get CIFS to work?

bergjes — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:11:49 GMT

Hi,I'm a complete noob, but i'm still trying to get Alfresco to work like a "shared drive".I'm using Alfresco 3.2r2 on a Windows 7 computer.I just installed Alfresco, without changing anything.As far as I understand CIFS should work out of the box.But as I try to access the CIFS server from explorer

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

brian_robinson — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:17:10 GMT

That ought to work, but try the IP address instead. \\192.168.1.100\alfresco for example.

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

mbailey — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:43:41 GMT

I am running into the same problem except on 3.3

My understanding was to use

\\YourMachineName_a\alfresco\Users\YourSpaceName

to map the drive or access it as a shared drive. I have tried ever which combination it seems to access it, however I have not yet been successful. I am currently running it on MS Windows 2008 R2 and attempting to access it using Windows 7 Pro.

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

mrogers — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:35:47 GMT

On 3.3 you should be able to connect to CIFS with the name in your
cifs.serverName property which by default is ${localname}A. (No underscore character.)

Out of the box you should be able to connect with username: "admin", password: "admin" unless you changed that account when you installed alfresco.

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

mbailey — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:25:09 GMT

Where is cifs.serverName stored, is it stored in a config file, if so which one? I searched file contents and was unable to find it.

I am assuming CIFS is enabled out of the box or do I need to make modifications to some config files to enable it?

–
Max.

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

hydro — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:41:01 GMT

I have tried on Windows XP. using version 3.3
CIFS does not work.
When a file is uploaded to any space, I click on the view details, and there is a CIFS link (just beside WEBDAV link) .
The link does not point to a valid location.

Can somebody in Alfresco do something about this!!
Its urgent!!
For bulk upload, it makes no sense to upload 1 file per time. Its just too time consuming.
Some kind of drag and drop functionality should exist, else alfresco will be useless.

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

mpierce — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:59:59 GMT

I've tried to get CIFS to work for months; now with 3.3 out, I thought I'd try again. Still no CIFS.

I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2. Mapping \\myservernameA\Alfresco gets a "windows cannot access" error. I've disabled native SMB per http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Subsystem#Vista_And_Windows_2008. NBTSTAT shows nothing but the server and the workgroup (no myservernameA). When I unbind \device\ in the netbt parameters, nbtstat doesn't work.

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

brian_robinson — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:38:23 GMT

Try setting the LmCompatibilityLevel to 1 on both the Windows 2008 server running alfresco and the Windows 7 client. You shouldn't need to do this for a Windows XP client machine as far as I know. Here is how to change the setting: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc960646.aspx

Thanks,
-Brian

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

jlabuelo — Thu, 06 May 2010 07:03:47 GMT

Hi there
et me explain you how we got it to work. We have installed Alfresco in a Linux Ubuntu machine nd we work with it from Windows XP and 7 machines in the office.

To move big quantities of files we use CIFs which uses to take us some time to configure even steps in the manuals are quite simple.

Finally we got it to work mapping a network drive in Windows machines to the IP address of the Alfresco Ubuntu Server, not including A at the end even it is in the manuals and neither using the machine name Ej: \\192.168.1.10\Alfresco and using an existing alfresco account.

We were not able to get it to work until we realized that we need to make sure that ports 445 137 138 139 were open. Normally when you are trying to get access to CIFS from a second machine and it takes a long time to connect returning an error message at the end it is because the conection could not be established, Did you check if these ports are open in your server?

Hope this helps

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

david_labbe — Thu, 06 May 2010 10:32:26 GMT

Hi there,

I am also a bit of a neeb on Alfresco and face some challenging issues with CIFS.

Config: alfresco community 3.3 - Vista SP 1

The problem is that it randomly works and I cannot figure out why it starts working or stops working. I have followed all the possible steps in the (numerous) threads on the matter and still can't figure out.

if I issue a nbtstat -a <my alfresco server ip>, I can see the <my alfresco server>A entry (twice, but I guess it must normal as <my computer> also shows twice)

if I issue a net use command to map the drive, I get a "System error 86" specified network password not correct.

If i go to my explorer and try to get \\<my alfresco server>A\alfresco, I get the login dialog, but it systematically fails on the password / username.

I did the steps of updating the registry with [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters] "SMBDeviceEnabled"=dword:00000000

I checked that both ports 139 and 445 are available and they are…

I am at a loss… the worst bit is that sometimes it works and I go yipeeee, but then it stops again and I can't figure out why…

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

david_labbe — Sun, 09 May 2010 11:20:59 GMT

Anybody??

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

jlabuelo — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:12:08 GMT

Hi There

Dont know if this helps, but can you try to launch alfresco as an "Administrator User"? In linux OS, If you have all those ports open (TCP and UDP) you need to lauch alfresco using the SuperAdmin user (sudo) if not CIFS will not work, dont know if in Windows will be the same

Hope this helps, cheers

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

david_labbe — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:56:27 GMT

Hi jlabuelo ,

I have just tried your suggestion and it seems to work using the "run as admin" in windows… What I do not know is whether it is working because of that or whether my system is just temperamental as it has worked before on and off…

If it stays stable, then I have my answer. I'll keep you posted.

In the mean time, thanks for your help.

Cheers

David

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

david_labbe — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:08:26 GMT

there you go… without doing anything, 1 hr later, I can't access the CIFS shares… login/ password dialog poping up forever… I am totally confused…

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

asmith — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:00:26 GMT

I may have overlooked this in browsing the thread, but I had issues with CIFS until I disabled the windows file and printer sharing on the appropriate network adapters. Alfresco and Windows file sharing just disagree. There are some other posts on this board about that. Regardless, I am still having some other issues with CIFS (http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=26792). Anyway, just thought I'd mention it just in case.

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

mcraven — Tue, 11 May 2010 22:39:04 GMT

Look toward the end of this thread. It show what I did to get CIFS working on V3.3 under Windows 2003 server.

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=24209&p=86441#p86441

Regards,
Mark C.

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

jlabuelo — Wed, 12 May 2010 06:57:56 GMT

Hi David

I can tell you that once I configure CIFS ports on Linux Ubuntu and I launch it as an admin using the "sudo" command, it works fine and dont get the error pop up window when I try to access the shared network, Maybe the last post you got from mcraven, or asmith will work, but if not If I were you I would go for the linux option. I remember having also lots of problems with Windows and CIFS like you are explaining now

Cheers

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

david_labbe — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:49:02 GMT

Hi all,

Look toward the end of this thread. It show what I did to get CIFS working on V3.3 under Windows 2003 server.

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=24209&p=86441#p86441

thanks Mark for the link.. I will have a look at it asap.

I can tell you that once I configure CIFS ports on Linux Ubuntu and I launch it as an admin using the "sudo" command, it works fine and dont get the error pop up window when I try to access the shared network

I tried runnign the server as admin but it did not work.

Maybe the last post you got from mcraven, or asmith will work, but if not If I were you I would go for the linux option. I remember having also lots of problems with Windows and CIFS like you are explaining now

I will indeed look at the posts. With regards to linux, I am a great fan and would have gladly considered it but I can't as the server on which the app will eventually get deployed is a windows server and I can't change that. I might look into it for personal benefits though…

I'll keep you all posted on my progress with CIFS

Cheers

David

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

mpierce — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:43:44 GMT

Just wanted to share the fix to my mystery CIFS problem in case anyone runs into the same block. After looking back far enough, I found a flag that CIFS just DOES NOT WORK on 64-bit. Link and helpful info here: CIFS troubles.This was never fixed. I installed Windows 2008 x86 and the alfresco netbt name showed up. After disabling smb 2.0, I was able to map drives from every machine but the local one. Good enough for me!

Re: Cannot get CIFS to work?

philippelr — Fri, 21 May 2010 08:05:44 GMT

Hey,

I had the same problem, but I solved it this morning thanks to wgonzalez.
You can find my post, (and his answer especially), here:

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=26941#p88033

Good Luck !