topic can alfresco access 2 servers for authentication.... in Alfresco Archive https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/can-alfresco-access-2-servers-for-authentication/m-p/79950#M53288 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi, </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I have set up authentication against 1 server using </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ntlm-authentication-context.xml and 'passthru' in file-servers.xml </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>All is good, however…..</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>How do I get Alfresco to authenticate against 2 servers in succession?? </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>When I list 2 servers it takes 2 logon attempts to be successful.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Each loaction has there own logon details stored on a particular ldap server which are not duplicated so a user authentication will fail against 1 server but not the other.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>My question therefore is….</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Can Alfresco check 2 or more servers in succession for authentication??????</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Stuart.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:32:20 GMT stuartmcmahon 2006-09-11T15:32:20Z can alfresco access 2 servers for authentication.... https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/can-alfresco-access-2-servers-for-authentication/m-p/79950#M53288 Hi, I have set up authentication against 1 server using ntlm-authentication-context.xml and 'passthru' in file-servers.xml All is good, however…..How do I get Alfresco to authenticate against 2 servers in succession?? When I list 2 servers it takes 2 logon attempts to be successful.Each loaction has Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:32:20 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/can-alfresco-access-2-servers-for-authentication/m-p/79950#M53288 stuartmcmahon 2006-09-11T15:32:20Z Re: can alfresco access 2 servers for authentication.... https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/can-alfresco-access-2-servers-for-authentication/m-p/79951#M53289 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>NTLM config works for one server.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Can Alfresco check 2 indepenent servers for authentication???</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:54:10 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/can-alfresco-access-2-servers-for-authentication/m-p/79951#M53289 stuartmcmahon 2006-09-12T13:54:10Z Re: can alfresco access 2 servers for authentication.... https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/can-alfresco-access-2-servers-for-authentication/m-p/79952#M53290 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>If I list the 2 servers in the ntlm context file it can take 2 attempts to logon!!!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Looks like Alfresco knows about the 2 servers but cannot try them in succession!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Any reason why????</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Alfresco is a nightmare to configure.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:00:04 GMT https://connect.hyland.com/t5/alfresco-archive/can-alfresco-access-2-servers-for-authentication/m-p/79952#M53290 stuartmcmahon 2006-09-12T14:00:04Z