topic Share will not Authenticate in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/share-will-not-authenticate/m-p/248356#M201486 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi All…</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Bit of an issue here and it's doing my head in. Running Alfresco 4.0.d community….. NO SSO….</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Alfresco repo running on an Ubuntu server /JBoss 4 at </SPAN><A href="http://alfresco-server:28080/alfresco" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://alfresco-server:28080/alfresco</A><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I can connect to this from any browser on any machine on my network <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /> Log in OK as admin, guest and any other user I create. Ping works fine etc, etc, etc….</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Share running on one of my local VM's (XP for testing in this instance) running on Tomcat 6.0.35.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have copied the share-config-custom.xml.sample to &lt;tomcat&gt;/shared/classes/alfresco/web-extension/share-config-custom.xml and I have un-commented the following section and changed the server name and port references accordingly.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp; &lt;config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Remote"&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;remote&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endpoint&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;id&gt;alfresco-noauth&lt;/id&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;name&gt;Alfresco - unauthenticated access&lt;/name&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;description&gt;Access to Alfresco Repository WebScripts that do not require authentication&lt;/description&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;connector-id&gt;alfresco&lt;/connector-id&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endpoint-url&gt;</SPAN><A href="http://alfresco-server:28080/alfresco/s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://alfresco-server:28080/alfresco/s</A><SPAN>&lt;/endpoint-url&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;identity&gt;none&lt;/identity&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/endpoint&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endpoint&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;id&gt;alfresco&lt;/id&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;name&gt;Alfresco - user access&lt;/name&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;description&gt;Access to Alfresco Repository WebScripts that require user authentication&lt;/description&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;connector-id&gt;alfresco&lt;/connector-id&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endpoint-url&gt;</SPAN><A href="http://alfresco-server:28080/alfresco/s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://alfresco-server:28080/alfresco/s</A><SPAN>&lt;/endpoint-url&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;identity&gt;user&lt;/identity&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/endpoint&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endpoint&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;id&gt;alfresco-feed&lt;/id&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;name&gt;Alfresco Feed&lt;/name&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;description&gt;Alfresco Feed - supports basic HTTP authentication via the EndPointProxyServlet&lt;/description&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;connector-id&gt;http&lt;/connector-id&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;endpoint-url&gt;</SPAN><A href="http://alfresco-server:28080/alfresco/s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://alfresco-server:28080/alfresco/s</A><SPAN>&lt;/endpoint-url&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;basic-auth&gt;true&lt;/basic-auth&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;identity&gt;user&lt;/identity&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/endpoint&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/remote&gt;</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/config&gt;</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I have the following configuration for the authentication chain in the alfresco-global.properties file on the remote alfresco-server.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Result ::::: Share cannot log in to the remote repo. I just get the error "Failed to login" - "The remote server may be unavailable or your authentication details have not been recognized" </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>There are no errors in any of the log files (Server Log or Alfresco Log), either on my local machine or on the Remote alfresco-server machine. I have searched the net… scoured the forum…. And I even have the latest Alfresco Share book from Packt…. GRRRRRR….</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>What am I doing wrong ? — What have I missed ? — Any and all ideas welcome…</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Best regards</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Steve</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:45:44 GMT smcardle 2012-03-26T05:45:44Z Share will not Authenticate https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/share-will-not-authenticate/m-p/248356#M201486 Hi All…Bit of an issue here and it's doing my head in. Running Alfresco 4.0.d community….. NO SSO….Alfresco repo running on an Ubuntu server /JBoss 4 at http://alfresco-server:28080/alfrescoI can connect to this from any browser on any machine on my network <IMG id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://migration33.stage.lithium.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /> Log in OK as admin, guest and any other Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:45:44 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/share-will-not-authenticate/m-p/248356#M201486 smcardle 2012-03-26T05:45:44Z Re: Share will not Authenticate https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/share-will-not-authenticate/m-p/248357#M201487 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Well do I feel stupid or what <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" />))</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I installed a new instance of Tomcat 6 and of course that does not have a shared/classes directory. However, Alfresco uses this directory to override configurations, so I just created one.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This is not enough <img id="smileysad" class="emoticon emoticon-smileysad" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.png" alt="Smiley Sad" title="Smiley Sad" /> I forgot to add the path to the the catalina.properties shared.loader property. GRRRRR…</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Anyway, this is documented for Alfresco on the Wiki at </SPAN><A href="http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Install_Tomcat6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Install_Tomcat6</A><SPAN> and I should have remembered doing this previously…. (Note to self "must document better in future"). After configuring this all is good in the land of Content <img id="smileyhappy" class="emoticon emoticon-smileyhappy" src="https://connect.hyland.com/i/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.png" alt="Smiley Happy" title="Smiley Happy" /></SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Steve</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:27:47 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/share-will-not-authenticate/m-p/248357#M201487 smcardle 2012-03-26T19:27:47Z