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CIFS is not working across subnets

jasonjolley — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:17:59 GMT

We cannot get CIFS to work across subnets. If we are on a different subnet we get the following error:msidev_a is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out if you have access permissions.The network path was not f

Re: CIFS is not working across subnets

gary_spencer — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:18:03 GMT

Hi,

Could you try creating an lmhosts file on one of the clients, it should go in <windows>\system32\drivers\etc. There's usually an lmhosts.sam file there that you can rename.

Add an entry of <ipaddress> MSIDEV_A.

NetBIOS broadcast and responds to requests on the same subnet, with multiple subnets you'll either need WINS, DNS entries or LMHOSTS files.

Cheers

Gary

Re: CIFS is not working across subnets

jasonjolley — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:19:02 GMT

We tried the LMHOSTS file change. We are able to see MSIDEV_A as a computer on the domain within our network places but when we click on it we get the same error as before.

What kind of DNS change do you think we would need to make? Is it within the Alfresco configuration - or within the DNS itself?

Thanks for your help!

Jason

Re: CIFS is not working across subnets

gary_spencer — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:10:23 GMT

Hi,

You may need to switch off native SMB on the server (see
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Configuration#Troubleshooting).

The clients will then connect using NetBIOS and the requests should be routed to the appropriate file server.

The DNS entry needs to be in your DNS server, or you could test it by putting an entry in one of the clients hosts file.

Cheers

Gary