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What is the correct syntax for dir.root on windows to point to a network smb share?

rlesnikov — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:04:14 GMT

Hi guys,Please help.Default is:#dir.root=C:/ALFRES~1/alf_data- works fine.Changing to:#dir.root=C:/IT- works fine.Changing to (network drive):#dir.root=O:/ITor#dir.root=smb://server.domain.local/SHARE/IT- none works (of course without "#").This is a mapped drive SMB share on what I would like to pla

Re: What is the correct syntax for dir.root on windows to point to a network smb share?

afaust — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:47:47 GMT

In Windows (other than in Linux) you do not need to prepend smb:// for network file shares. //server.domain.local/SHARE/IT should be all you need. If you check in Windows file explorer, \\server.domain.local\SHARE\IT should be all you need to open the drive in the explorer, and since Java does not care about / vs \ in paths, and / are more convenient in *.properties files the format above is sufficient.

Re: What is the correct syntax for dir.root on windows to point to a network smb share?

rlesnikov — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:57:37 GMT

This caused error at login as if Alfresco failed to start.

Your authentication details have not been recognized or Alfresco may not be available at this time.

What should I check to fix this?

Thank you.

Re: What is the correct syntax for dir.root on windows to point to a network smb share?

afaust — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 20:01:57 GMT

The log files to start, especially alfresco.log

Re: What is the correct syntax for dir.root on windows to point to a network smb share?

rlesnikov — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 23:13:14 GMT

It shows a lot of warnings and errors. I’ve attached the log, could someone help?

Thank you.

Re: What is the correct syntax for dir.root on windows to point to a network smb share?

afaust — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:15:43 GMT

If you look in the alfresco.log you should see this error:

Caused by: org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentIOException: 08210000 Failed to create store root: O:\Users\RLesnikov\contentstore.deleted

In alfresco.optimus.log

Caused by: org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ContentIOException: 08210000 Failed to create store root: \\optimus.viscira.local\OPTIMUS\Users\RLesnikov\contentstore.deleted

Have you made sure that all the permissions are set correctly?

Re: What is the correct syntax for dir.root on windows to point to a network smb share?

rlesnikov — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 18:05:16 GMT

Hi Axel,

Finally I got Alfresco working on a network share but assigning permissions is still a challenge for me. We have LDAP (AD) configured on a nix share where I placed the repository (except keystore and database). This only works when I give full access to everyone. No one other combination (domain admin, local admins) works for me. I tried start service under domain admin, gave full control permissions, startup log looks OK, but when I try to access share - I begin getting a lot of errors and share is not accessible.

Error like this:

ERROR [freemarker.runtime] [FeedNotifier1] Error executing FreeMarker template

FreeMarker template error:

Any ideas? May be I should try to run service under local admin account and try full access to this account or may be you have documentation which describes exact access rights needed to run Alfresco on a Windows server with repository placed on a network share?

Thanks in advance,

Roman.

Re: What is the correct syntax for dir.root on windows to point to a network smb share?

afaust — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 09:57:30 GMT

Unfortunately you have not included the full error details of the FreeMarker error so I don't know what really went wrong there.

Generally, the account that is running the Alfresco services needs to have full read/write access to all the files and directories Alfresco is touching. This primarily means the Tomcat instance directory/directories, alf_data (incl. externalized content stores), keystore and any SOLR data directories. In a default Alfresco setup using the installer this would basically be the entire installation directory.

The question remains if you really have access errors since no details for the errors have been provided...

Re: What is the correct syntax for dir.root on windows to point to a network smb share?

rlesnikov — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 17:31:25 GMT

Hi Axel,

I’ve attached the log file. I’ve temporary fixed this by adding chmod 777 //…../* on nix side to a repository content and started both services under domain admin account. From a nix-box (LDAP AD is assigned) I allowed domain admins full access. Now regular user cannot access the repository but looks like alfresco starts and works fine. My concern is only what happens with rights on my nix (freebsd-based) –box when new files/folders will be created (if 777 would be applied or not, if not – it will cause problems again). Looks like this is not alfresco stuff already, but however look through the logs I provided, probably you’ll have better idea how to fix this.

Thank you,

Roman

Re: What is the correct syntax for dir.root on windows to point to a network smb share?

afaust — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 17:58:57 GMT

Ok - the immediate issue is indeed an access denied issue:

Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: \\optimus.company.local\Alfresco\contentstore\2016\10\5\12\39\3f57136d-4be1-46bf-9bd7-54e50ff2ac84.bin (Access is denied)

The system needs full read/write access on the \\optimus.company.local\Alfresco path and any children.

Re: What is the correct syntax for dir.root on windows to point to a network smb share?

rlesnikov — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 18:01:59 GMT

Ok, let’s mark this as resolved for now.

Thank you,

Roman