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CIFS from windows share won't work

gmccullough — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:02:59 GMT

Have been at this for several weeks, even upgraded from 3.4b to 3.4c (clean install, no upgrade). I have been able to successfully integrate my Alfresco install on a Fedora 14 x64 KVM machine to my Windows 2008 R2 AD (I THINK) with Kerberos for Auth and ldap-ad for sync. (I THINK)I can log in to ex

Re: CIFS from windows share won't work

gmccullough — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:05:25 GMT

I have modified my auth chain:

#authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm,kerberos1:kerberos,ldap-ad1:ldap-ad
authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm,kerberos1:kerberos

and can still login with my AD credentials, so I have to assume that kerb is working.

this is frustrating….

Re: CIFS from windows share won't work

gmccullough — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:00:40 GMT

Sorry to keep posting to my same reply, but can someone help me turn on some logging to see what is going on here? I can post any of my config files if necessary. Like i said though, auth works from the web interface, not from windows explorer. thanks in advance

Re: CIFS from windows share won't work

gmccullough — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:50:12 GMT

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-5576 solved the problem

added this to rm-public-services-security-context.xml:

 <bean id="ContentService_security" class="org.alfresco.repo.security.permissions.impl.acegi.MethodSecurityInterceptor">
        <property name="authenticationManager">
            <ref bean="authenticationManager"/>
        </property>
        <property name="accessDecisionManager">
            <ref local="accessDecisionManager"/>
        </property>
        <property name="afterInvocationManager">
            <ref local="afterInvocationManager"/>
        </property>
        <property name="objectDefinitionSource">
            <value>
                <![CDATA[
                org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentService.getRawReader=ACL_METHOD.ROLE_ADMINISTRATOR,RM_ABSTAIN
                org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentService.getReader=ACL_NODE.0.sys:base.ReadContent,RM.Read.0
                org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentService.getWriter=ACL_NODE.0.sys:base.WriteContent,RM.WriteContent.0
                org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentService.isTransformable=ACL_ALLOW,RM_ALLOW
                org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentService.getTransformer=ACL_ALLOW,RM_ALLOW
                org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentService.getImageTransformer=ACL_ALLOW,RM_ALLOW
                org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentService.transform=ACL_ALLOW,RM_ALLOW
                org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentService.getTempWriter=ACL_ALLOW,RM_ALLOW
(added these two lines)
                org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentService.getStoreFreeSpace=ACL_ALLOW
                org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentService.getStoreTotalSpace=ACL_ALLOW

                org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentService.*=ACL_DENY,RM_DENY
                ]]>
            </value>
        </property>
    </bean>
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CIFS now works as expected, so far.

Re: CIFS from windows share won't work

miudon — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:32:50 GMT

Thanks gmccullough
Your tip was very useful and now i get CIFS work without problems.

Ubuntu server
VM ESXi
Alfresco 3.4.b
alf_data on Windows 2008
Clients with Windows XP,Vista,7,2003