topic Configuring CIFS in Alfresco Archive

Configuring CIFS

thk — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 18:35:05 GMT

Hi,I have alfresco-5.0.d Community Version installed on a virtual machine (Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS (64 bit)) of our server. Now I want to configure CIFS to access the Alfresco content like an Explorer Drive from my Window 8.1 PC.I added in alfresco-5.0.d/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties t

Re: Configuring CIFS

mrogers — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 17:02:00 GMT

Your server name is alfresco! Please connect to the name you have configured. Not IP-address Ubuntu vm. And the rest of the path is probably wrong too. Your content store gets mounted at the protocol root. So your path should be of a path in alfresco below that. (That's nothing to do with the o.s. paths where alfresco itself is installed.)

Re: Configuring CIFS

thk — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:58:30 GMT

Thanks for replying.
Ok I configured cifs.serverName=Alfresco
But when I try to map a network drive in my windows explorer with
Network drive: Z:
Folder: \\Alfresco\ I get the message "Windows cannot access \\Alfresco"

Re: Configuring CIFS

mrogers — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 09:40:15 GMT

Have you got a firewall in the way? Are there any errors in your log file?
Are you also running SAMBA

Re: Configuring CIFS

thk — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 14:20:00 GMT

I checked alfresco.log and catalina.out. I found only another problem in these logs about problems sending invitation email to a user to join a site. But nothing about CIFS.
We are not using Samba. Which ports have to be open in the firewall? Ports 445 and also 137–139?

2015-09-12 00:00:00,522  ERROR [action.executer.MailActionExecuter] [FeedNotifier1] Failed to send email to  : org.springframework.mail.MailSendException: Mail server connection failed; nested exception is com.sun.mail.util.MailConnectException: Couldn't connect to host, port: smtp.example.com, 25; timeout -1;
  nested exception is:
        java.net.UnknownHostException: smtp.example.com. Failed messages: com.sun.mail.util.MailConnectException: Couldn't connect to host, port: smtp.example.com, 25; timeout -1;
  nested exception is:
        java.net.UnknownHostException: smtp.example.com; message exceptions (1) are:
Failed message 1: com.sun.mail.util.MailConnectException: Couldn't connect to host, port: smtp.example.com, 25; timeout -1;‍‍‍‍‍‍

Re: Configuring CIFS

thk — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 14:09:00 GMT

Now I got some error messages in the alfresco.log regarding CIFS:

<code>2015-09-21 14:02:21,934 WARN [org.alfresco.fileserver] [localhost-startStop-1] CIFS, Unable to get local domain/workgroup name, using default of WORKGROUP. This may be due to firewall settings or incorrect <broadcast> setting)
2015-09-21 14:02:22,034 ERROR [org.alfresco.fileserver] [CIFS Server] [SMB] Server error : org.alfresco.jlan.server.config.InvalidConfigurationException: Error initializing TCP-IP SMB session handler, Permission denied
2015-09-21 14:02:22,071 ERROR [org.alfresco.fileserver] [CIFS Server] Error from JLAN
org.alfresco.jlan.server.config.InvalidConfigurationException: Error initializing TCP-IP SMB session handler, Permission denied
        at org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.nio.NIOCifsConnectionsHandler.initializeHandler(NIOCifsConnectionsHandler.java:259)
        at org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.SMBServer.run(SMBServer.java:479)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Re: Configuring CIFS

mrogers — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:09:00 GMT

If you are using linux then only root can bind to IP ports below 1000.

Due to security concerns, it's not recommended to run alfresco as root therefore configure alfresco to use unrestricted ports and then use the portmapper to map those unrestricted ports to the expected numbers. Users will typically use 1445, 1137 and 1139

http://docs.alfresco.com/5.0/tasks/fileserv-CIFS-useracc.html

Re: Configuring CIFS

thk — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:49:32 GMT

Our Administrator created rules in the firewall that all requests to 445, 137, 138, and 139 are forwarded to 1445, 1137, 1138, and 1139, but still:
When I try to map a network drive in my windows explorer with
Network drive: Z:
Folder: \\Alfresco\ I get the message "Windows cannot access \\Alfresco"

Re: Configuring CIFS

tearalong — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 05:02:00 GMT

We use a variety of windows versions. To connect using CIFS I run this 2 line batch file on each of them. I have the server on 192.168.0.12 and have configured the alfresco cifs server to be named alfrescox - I think the default is ALfrescoA. The 1st line is just informational.

nbtstat -an 192.168.0.12
net use Y: \\alfrescox\alfresco /user:admin PASSWORD /persistent:yes

Re: Configuring CIFS

thk — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 18:54:25 GMT

Can the nbtstat command used on my Windows PC to detect the Ubuntu Server of Alfresco?
The command
nbtstat -an <IP of my Ubuntu-server with Alfresco on it> set up on my Windows PC just results in "Host not found"
net use Z: \\Alfresco\alfresco /user:admin MyPassword /persistent:yes also just results in "Network-Path not found"
(Name of my Alfresco-CIFS-Server in alfresco-global.properties: Alfresco)

Thanks for help

Re: Configuring CIFS

thk — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:38:02 GMT

It seems that the problem why the folder of Alfresco is not visible in the Windows Explorer is that Alfresco is not integrated in the domain controller. How Alfresco can be integrated in a domain controller?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Re: Configuring CIFS

thk — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 19:16:07 GMT

in the alfresco.log I see only:
2016-03-16 17:35:12,647 WARN [org.alfresco.fileserver] [localhost-startStop-1] CIFS, Unable to get local domain/workgroup name, using default of WORKGROUP. This may be due to firewall settings or incorrect <broadcast> setting)
But I`ve no idea what can be wrong with the setting.