topic CIFS Issues on W2K3 in Alfresco Archive

CIFS Issues on W2K3

vcardoso — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:47:32 GMT

I apologize in advance for the noob question below:I've installed Alfresco Community Server 2.0 on a W2K3 server which is on a network, but there is no domain. I'm using the default HSQL database.I am unable to mount the Alfresco share from any remote computer. Interestingly enough, when I look at t

Re: CIFS Issues on W2K3

gary_spencer — Tue, 15 May 2007 08:05:10 GMT

Hi,

The problem is your server name is 14 characters long, so when the '_A' gets appended to it using the standard configuration for the Alfresco CIFS server the name becomes too long for a NetBIOS name, the 'A' gets chopped off.

A NetBIOS name is 16 characters but the last character is used to specify the service type, such as file server, so there's a maximum of 15 characters for the server name.

In the file-servers.xml file change the <host name="${localname}_A"/> to something like <host name="HARORLIPUB_A"/> in the "CIFS Server" section of the configuration.

Cheers

Gary

Re: CIFS Issues on W2K3

vcardoso — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:35:10 GMT

Hi Gary!

Thanks for the quick response. Making the changes above did seem to resolve some of my issues. The network path is now correctly being saved. I'm still having issues with PC clients being able to connect to the CIFS volume, but I'm going to go back to the other forum posts and see if I can troubleshoot further.

Thanks!

-v