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Can not connect when using CIFS hostname

eddies — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:47:21 GMT

Hello, I have Alfresco Cumminity 201605 installed. Kerberos auth to AD. I am trying to access it via CIFS. It's on a CentOS 7 install on a system with a hostname of vm604. The domain has been changed, but lets assume it's domain.com. DNS is setup for a CName so that alfrescotest and alfrescotest.dom

Re: Can not connect when using CIFS hostname

jpotts — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:14:07 GMT

Here are some ideas:

1. Are you running as a non-root user (like "alfresco")? If so, that user cannot bind to the default CIFS port because it is privileged. If this is happening you should see an error fairly early in the log. To fix this you can use a port forwarding rule to map the CIFS port to a higher, non-privileged port.

2. Do an smbclient --list to see if you can see the SMB share Alfresco is exposing.

3. Check to see if Alfresco is listening on the CIFS/SMB ports

4. You should be able to mount a local drive to Alfresco via CIFS/SMB from the command line.

5. Make sure the firewall is allowing inbound connections to the CIFS/SMB port

Re: Can not connect when using CIFS hostname

adit_patel — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 20:29:01 GMT

I see that your configuration has double quotes in cifs.serverName value (cifs.serverName="alfrescotest"). Has it been on server properties file? If yes please try to remove it

Re: Can not connect when using CIFS hostname

eddies — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 22:57:38 GMT

CIFS works great when I use the full hostname and domain. alfrescotest.domain.com So it's not a firewall or port issue.

I removed the quotes, but it didn't fix the issue. Good eye tho.