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CIFS Server

javadeveloper — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:18:29 GMT

HiI am totally new to Alfresco and have some questions regarding the setting up of CIFS.I have managed to install Alfresco and got it up and running. I have managed to use our Active Directory so users can now access Alfresco without the need to log in.I would like to set up CIFS. How do I do this

Re: CIFS Server

mikeh — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:42:19 GMT

Hi

This may be of use:
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Configuration

Thanks,
Mike

Re: CIFS Server

javadeveloper — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:41:13 GMT

Thanks for the response.

I have managed to find an article that tell me hot configure the CIFS server:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Configuring_the_CIFS_and_web_servers_for_Kerberos/AD_integration

The following commands:

setspn -a cifs/<cifs-server-name> alfrescocifs
setspn -a cifs/<cifs-server-name>.<domain> alfrescocifs

Do these have to be done on the Alfresco Server or user's PCs'?.

I assume the cifs-server-name would be what the name of the box Alfresco is running on with "_A" at then end?.

What would be the web-server-name be?.

Regards

Raul.

Re: CIFS Server

tpeelen — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:59:51 GMT

The setspn commands should be executed at the AD server (as well as the ktpass util).

Re: CIFS Server

mikeh — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:11:55 GMT

From the article:

<cifs-server-name> is the NetBIOS name of the Alfresco CIFS server when running on an Active Directory client or the host name for a client that is not an Active Directory client, ie. not logged onto the domain.

<web-server-name> is the host name that is running the Alfresco server.

Mike

Re: CIFS Server

javadeveloper — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:55:37 GMT

Hi

Thanks for your replies - much appreciated.

The strangest thing has happened. I was able to map a network drive to our CIFS server, without doing any of the tasks outlined in:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Configuring_the_CIFS_and_web_servers_for_Kerberos/AD_integration

How is the possible?.

I also got a few other colleagues to map to the CIFS server and they were able to make alterations to files and I was able to see their changes.

However some colleagues were unable to map to the drive, this was resolved by me re-starting our Alfresco Server box. Why is this the case?.

The only change I have done is copying the Win32NetBIOS.dll from the bin directory to c:\winnt\system32.

Regards

Raul.

Re: CIFS Server

mikeh — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:32:49 GMT

I'm not the expert on CIFS and AD authentication, but I suspect the fact you're in a Microsoft environment means Windows is authenticating the CIFS sessions for you against the default domain.

Mike