topic Re: Can't connect to SMB using the CIFS Name, but using the IP address in Alfresco Forum

Can't connect to SMB using the CIFS Name, but using the IP address

jacotec — Wed, 31 May 2017 14:27:16 GMT

Hi,I've deployed Alfresco Community Edition 5.2 in the last days and was able to solve almost any questions of my "learning curve" by this great forum and other internet sources.But there is one thing I can't get up and running properly: Finding and connecting to Alfresco via SMB using the defined C

Re: Can't connect to SMB using the CIFS Name, but using the IP address

douglascrp — Wed, 31 May 2017 21:35:39 GMT

First question.

Can the hostname be resolved in the remote machine?

If you try to ping it using the hostname, can you find it?

If do not set the cifs.serverName, Alfresco will use this as default:

cifs.serverName=${localname}A

Which means, in your case, if you do not explitly set it, you should be able to reach it by using \\DMSServerA\Alfresco

Try commenting that line, and then try again using the hostname + A

\\DMSServerA\Alfresco

Re: Can't connect to SMB using the CIFS Name, but using the IP address

jacotec — Wed, 31 May 2017 22:14:10 GMT

Nope, the server can't be pinged by its hostname, also commenting out the hostname config does not help to connect to it with \\dmsserverA

No idea why, my OpenMediaVault VM can be easily pinged by any machines with it hostname and is also directly listed in any Windows network search.

Re: Can't connect to SMB using the CIFS Name, but using the IP address

douglascrp — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 01:46:51 GMT

So, in that case, your problem is not Alfresco related, but network related.

Fix your DNS resolution and it much probably will work.

Re: Can't connect to SMB using the CIFS Name, but using the IP address

jacotec — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:08:16 GMT

The NETBIOS stuff is normally handled by SAMBA and this is configured in the smb.conf ... but as far as I've learned Alfresco is not using the Ubuntu SAMBA stuff but an own implementation. Alfresco should broadcast its hostname to the Windows machines, this has nothing to do with DNS at this point.

But the broadcasting does not seem to work properly here and currently I don't know why.

Re: Can't connect to SMB using the CIFS Name, but using the IP address

douglascrp — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:28:35 GMT

Exactly, Alfresco has nothing to do with Samba, so you need to find a way to let the computer resolve the hostname.

Simple test. Set the DNS entry into the hosts file in your local machine, then try again.

As I said, if the computer can not reach Alfresco by name, you won't be able to make it work the way you want.