topic Re: NFS not working in Alfresco Archive

NFS not working

gojko — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:08:19 GMT

I have tried setting up NFS server on Alfresco but I have seemingly hit the wall. I always get Input/Output error.This is my file-servers.properties### NFS Server Configuration ###nfs.enabled=true# NodeMonitor to update cache of NFS server on nodes renaming and deleting not through NFS protocolnfs.n

Re: NFS not working

lukaszr — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 07:12:03 GMT

Try changing address from 192.168.27.58:/alfresco to 192.168.27.58:/Alfresco
"Alfresco" is a default name (filesystem.name=Alfresco)

On a side note I would put these configuration properties in alfresco-global.properties not in file-servers.properties. Also NFS is being deprecated and will be removed in future version - see 5.0 release notes.

If above doesn't work here is a config that works for us (verified with Alfresco 4.0.x and 5.0.x):
### File server related properties ###
#must match /etc/auto.alfresco //localhost/alfresco-<filesystem.name>
filesystem.name=Demo
filesystem.avm.enabled=true
filesystem.avm.name=AVM
filesystem.avm.stores=

### CIFS Windows Shares ###
cifs.enabled=false

### NFS Server Configuration ###
nfs.enabled=true
nfs.nodeMonitor.enabled=${nfs.enabled}
nfs.mountServerPort=2250
nfs.nfsServerPort=2249

# map root(uid:0,gid:0)->admin, alfresco(uid:904,gid:300)->service_user
nfs.user.mappings=admin,service_user
nfs.user.mappings.value.admin.uid=0
nfs.user.mappings.value.admin.gid=0
nfs.user.mappings.value.service_user.uid=704
nfs.user.mappings.value.service_user.gid=200
nfs.rpcRegisterPort=0
nfs.portMapperPort=111
nfs.portMapperEnabled=false
nfs.sessionDebug=INFO
nfs.mountServerDebug=true

/etc/auto.master
/mnt/alfresco /etc/auto.alfresco –timeout=300

/etc/auto.alfresco
demo /Company\ Home -rw,intr,nolock,timeo=20,retry=3,tcp,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,port=2249,mountport=2250 localhost:/Demo

Re: NFS not working

jtsmith — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 15:07:10 GMT

An issue with the NFS server (JLAN-11) transposes the GID and UID of the NFS client user, meaning that Unix accounts that have a user-id that differs from the group-id will not gain authentication. The Alfresco-NFS server will deny them access. The user will only see ls: /mnt/alfresco: Input/output error. This issue lasted this long presumably because so many Linux distributions create a new group for each new user, unless told otherwise. Though the bug is declared closed, it has yet to filter down to SVN, and org.alfresco.filesys.server.auth.AlfrescoRpcAuthenticator.authenticateRpcClient(int, RpcPacket) still reads the GID before the UID.