topic Re: Browsing Alfresco CIFS shares in Alfresco Archive

Browsing Alfresco CIFS shares

peterglock — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:50:40 GMT

Our server setup is 4.3.a (nightly) on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Users are mostly on mac osx and also a couple of win7 PCs. LDAP is OSX OpenDirectory.Following the advice in the wiki and this forum I have got CIFS sharing working in a stable manner for clients. So far, so good. However, the user experience

Re: Browsing Alfresco CIFS shares

andy2_0 — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 15:52:39 GMT

HI Peter, thanks for sharing!

My case is a little different from yours, I don't know how to get it work.
Alfresco Server: located in a public cloud (Alfresco 4.2.e @ CentOS 6.3, 64bit)
Client: my laptop (Win7), access from my office to the alfresco server thru internet.

I hope to map alfresco repository to a local driver in my laptop. I followed your settings but I don't know how to

cifs.serverName=${localname}A   ### where is the ${localname} defined?
cifs.domain=PARKMILL ### I changed it to WORKGROUP, as same as in my laptop;
cifs.broadcast=192.168.0.255   ### don't know what IP I shall set
cifs.bindto=192.168.0.85 ### don't know how what IP I shall set.

For the SMB related ports, I am using the default ones: 445, 137, 138, 139.

authentication.chain=ldap1:ldap,alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm   ### I don't use LDAP for authentication, how to set this?
ldap.authentication.java.naming.read.timeout=15000

Would you please help on these? Thanks!

Re: Browsing Alfresco CIFS shares

peterglock — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:33:37 GMT

Andy,

Start by reading through the documentation at http://docs.alfresco.com/community/topic/com.alfresco.community.doc/concepts/fileserv-subsystem-CIFS.html

1. ${localname} takes the hostname of the server, you don't have to define it
2. yes, that's correct
3. for the network settings, what is the IP address of your centOS server? The broadcast should be the same as your lan broadcast address. We use 192.168.0.0/24 so the broadcast address is 192.168.0.255
4. you can leave blank or set it to the IP of your server
5. default ports are ok if you run alfresco as root, otherwise use non-reserved port numbers and redirects as I have indicated. You have to make sure that there is no other process binding to the SMB ports (i.e. make sure samba is disabled)
6. we authenticate to an Open Directory server. If you use AD or some other ldap server you will need a different setup.

Regards & good luck
Peter

Re: Browsing Alfresco CIFS shares

lordp7h — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 21:56:55 GMT

I too am extremely interested in whether or not Alfresco has implemented some kind of host announcement or network discovery for a Linux-based server. For my case, I have currently set-up a JLAN server on an Android device and I can mount my CIFS share via the "net use" command and "smb connect" per Alfresco's conventional procedure, however, I want to have the server show up in Network Places(Windows) and Finder(MacOS) and be able to list out the available shares. I have tried multiple solutions including broadcasting NetBIOS datagrams to the local browse master, however, none of the packets are being received. Does Alfresco or anyone else have a fix for this?