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CIFS. Unable to login; login popup reappears endlessly.

malder — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:06:49 GMT

Hi, everyone.Nothing really new, but Cifs doesn't work for me. The sad thing is that unlike most of people who are describing CIFS related problems here, I have the simpliest possible case: small office, no domain, no complex external authorization schemas and so on. So, basically CIFS should work s

Re: CIFS. Unable to login; login popup reappears endlessly.

mrogers — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:16:17 GMT

That document is seriously out of date and in particular you should never edit files below WEB-INF. It should indeed "just work out of the box". Just set cifs.enabled in your alfresco-global.properties file.

Anyway since its working on a local machine and you don't have a firewall there's only really two problems to look at.
The first is whether you have bound your CIFS service to localhost or 127.0.0.0. Windows tends not to be a problem there.

The second thing is for your remote servers to be able to resolve to the correct addresses. It sounds like that's where your problems are.

Re: CIFS. Unable to login; login popup reappears endlessly.

lachmac — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:32:11 GMT

I have a similar problem. Set up also using the wizard, running Alfresco-3.4.d, easy setup, small company, no LDAP or special log-in

In alfresco-global.properties I have;

# CIFS
cifs.enabled=true
cifs.ServerName=alfresco
cifs.domain=<my workgroup name>
cifs.hostannounce=true
cifs.broadcast=255.255.255.0
cifs.tcpipSMB.port=1445
cifs.ipv6.enabled=false
cifs.netBIOSSMB.namePort=1137
cifs.netBIOSSMB.datagramPort=1138
cifs.netBIOSSMB.sessionPort=1139

But on starting Alfresco, I get NO MENTION in the alfresco.log about CIFS being started. I have turned on the 4J debug, but no output. It is as if CIFS does not start, at all.

Going slowly desperate…

Re: CIFS. Unable to login; login popup reappears endlessly.

mrogers — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:43:00 GMT

Look at the log messages for the "filesystems" siubsystem.

And there's a lot of configuratuion there in addition to cifs.enabled. Do you know what you are doing?

Re: CIFS. Unable to login; login popup reappears endlessly.

spiritz — Tue, 03 May 2011 03:27:17 GMT

I have a similar problem. Set up also using the wizard, running Alfresco-3.4.d, easy setup, small company, no LDAP or special log-in

In alfresco-global.properties I have;

# CIFS
cifs.enabled=true
cifs.ServerName=alfresco
cifs.domain=<my workgroup name>
cifs.hostannounce=true
cifs.broadcast=255.255.255.0
cifs.tcpipSMB.port=1445
cifs.ipv6.enabled=false
cifs.netBIOSSMB.namePort=1137
cifs.netBIOSSMB.datagramPort=1138
cifs.netBIOSSMB.sessionPort=1139

But on starting Alfresco, I get NO MENTION in the alfresco.log about CIFS being started. I have turned on the 4J debug, but no output. It is as if CIFS does not start, at all.

Going slowly desperate…

I'm not sure and not test about case-sensitive on alfresco configuration.

I can run with configuration like this

cifs.enabled=true
cifs.serverName=dms
cifs.ipv6.enabled=false
cifs.tcpipSMB.port=1445
cifs.netBIOSSMB.namePort=1137
cifs.netBIOSSMB.datagramPort=1138
cifs.netBIOSSMB.sessionPort=1139

and I've update my firewall with following command:
#sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp –dport 445 -j REDIRECT –to-port 1445
#sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp –dport 139 -j REDIRECT –to-port 1139
#sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp –dport 137 -j REDIRECT –to-port 1137
#sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -m tcp –dport 138 -j REDIRECT –to-port 1138

ps. I'm configure CIFS from some source on internet (I can't remenber).

It's work with my environment if It does'nt work with your environment, wait for another help.

Sorry for my english, hope you can understand.

Regards,
Nisumcee M.