topic Configuring CIFS for Kerberos/AD integration PROBLEM!! in Alfresco Archive

Configuring CIFS for Kerberos/AD integration PROBLEM!!

hnulty — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:55:13 GMT

Setting the scene: We have Alfresco Community 2.1.0 installed on RHEL4 with apache-tomcat 5.5.25 we have deployed alfresco.war from alfresco-community-war-2.2.0dev.zip dated 10/30/2007 - hoping for the fix for AR-1727CIFS authentication via Kerberos/AD is NOT working.We have customized file-server

Re: Configuring CIFS for Kerberos/AD integration PROBLEM!!

meansartin14 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:58:10 GMT

I am having the exact same issue, with the exception being that I want to authenticate users for BOTH the Web UI AND CIFS through AD.

I've got the Web UI authenticating properly so that no login is necessary, but I can not get the CIFS server to allow itself to be mapped as a network drive on Windows client PCs.

Have you resolved this issue? If so, how?

Re: Configuring CIFS for Kerberos/AD integration PROBLEM!!

hnulty — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:26:03 GMT

We never did resolve the issue. We actually abandoned Alfresco in favor of a different solution - Sharepoint.

Sorry we could be of no help.

Helen

Re: Configuring CIFS for Kerberos/AD integration PROBLEM!!

meansartin14 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:14:52 GMT

We never did resolve the issue. We actually abandoned Alfresco in favor of a different solution - Sharepoint.

Sorry we could be of no help.

Helen

Yikes. Sorry to hear that.

Hopefully, I can find a solution to this problem.

Re: Configuring CIFS for Kerberos/AD integration PROBLEM!!

viktu — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:41:52 GMT

We never did resolve the issue. We actually abandoned Alfresco in favor of a different solution - Sharepoint.

Sorry we could be of no help.

Helen

Yikes. Sorry to hear that.

Hopefully, I can find a solution to this problem.

Sorry to hear it? Of course, but what alternative do we have?

I do have the following problem: we have to start a content management project, but we can't effort (at least by now) 17.000€ each year for a license, plus 50.000€ for the implementation of OpenBravo.

We would like to start using the free version, to grow up the project inhouse, so when being widely used be able to pay that amount.

How can I do that if there is no stable version? The only solution is to pay less for a fu…g sharepoint server, it's a fact.

Alfresco is following the best way to destroy the way of access to their product. Ok, you will have few companies paying 17k€ each year or more, but can you imagine how much oportunities are you loosing with this way of licensing? If I can mount my Alfresco for free, and I can make it used in my environment, and it becomes an essential part of my services, why shouldn't I pay for support? I would!!!

No way

Re: Configuring CIFS for Kerberos/AD integration PROBLEM!!

meansartin14 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:37:29 GMT

I have started a thread that I hope to eventually turn into a AlfrescoWiki page for how to configure Active Directory authentication for both CIFS and the Web Interface in Alfresco Labs 3c.

Please see my thread:
[ERROR]Alfresco Engineers: CIFS auth does not work. Sugg?

Please come join in the discussion, or at least subscribe to the thread. I want to try to get everyone having these types of issues into the thread so that we can get a large collection of experiences and configurations.

We WILL find the answer for how to enable Active Directory authentication with CIFS in Alfresco!!