topic Re: No user CIFS access to RM documentLibrary in Alfresco Archive

No user CIFS access to RM documentLibrary

mathgallant — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:42:15 GMT

Hello,Using Alfresco 3.3g with RM module. I cannot get "Records Management User"s to be granted access to the rm site documentLibrary. Actually, I can't get anyone who is not an Alfresco Administrator to be granted access to it. I am focusing on the "Records Management User" group for now.I have fou

Re: No user CIFS access to RM documentLibrary

mathgallant — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:10:54 GMT

Tried again with 3.4b. No access using CIFS.

This is a fresh install, authentication using passthru. This time around the RM sees groups, but it does not change the fact I can't access the RM site using CIFS.

Re: No user CIFS access to RM documentLibrary

mathgallant — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 18:24:03 GMT

Well I managed to grant permission on the documentLibrary to other users in 3.4b using the "repository" link in Share. I navigated to the RM and edit the permissions for the documentLibrary (need to show folders). I clicked "inherit permissions" and now the RM groups can access the RM documentLibrary (I still need to set permission on individual items in the library, but thats fine).

I imagine this is done using alfresco Explorer in 3.3g since there is no "repository" link in the top toolbar in share in this version.

Re: No user CIFS access to RM documentLibrary

mathgallant — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 20:38:48 GMT

Just to add a little more information on the issue. CIFS seems all messed up. It doesn't work at all on 3.4b as I can't write to it no matter what. 3.3g works fine outside of the RM site.

Seems adding users to the site alone does not work in a RM site as permission are not inherited and therefore members of the site have no rights that extend to the documentLibrary. This is by design, or so I read on the forum. I can either force permission inheritance or add specific site permissions on objects in alfresco explorer or using the "Repository" management tool in 3.4b, but, unfortunatly, while I can access the RM documentLibrary in CIFS this way, I still can't write to it. Could be an unrelated issue.

Setting permissions in the fileplan using the "Manage Permissions" link only adds "file" and "Read" permissions. Those permissions are ok for user going through the Share interface, but are not appropriate for going through CIFS (so it seems).

Those permissions seem to conflict with something when copying documents into a folder in the Fileplan using CIFS as the document gets created, but no data can be added to it (remains at 0 bytes). This happens in 3.4b and 3.3g. It can't be modified or deleted no matter what permissions the user has (except for administrators).