Alfresco 3.3g - CIFS file access denied and read-only

[romgo]

Hello,

I'm running alfresco 3.3g on a Debian server.

Users mainly use CIFS access. With time we figure some very annoying problems :

- Sometimes files are in read-only mode, I did reproduce this, for exemple if user A is using a file, if I try to open this file I will be in readonly mode.
But the weird thing is that users report that there is nobody using the file.
As I don't have any tool which allow me to know if this is true, I believe them !
The solution when this occur is to try to rename the file through the web interface.

- Sometimes we can't access files, we get an error "access denied", I was not able to reproduce this condition.

All those problems concern Excel or Word files.

Does anyone already found those issues ? Am I the only one ?
Is it a configuration issue ?
I open some bug reports, but still waiting for an answer.

Its bad because users are not happy with the service provided by Alfresco. I agree with them, they can't work that way.
I really think that Alfresco has a great potential, but for now I'm far away.

Any feedback appreciated.

[romgo]

Hello,

am I the only having some issues with CIFS ?

Regards,

[eydun_n]

No, but not quite the same problems.

I'm using 3.4.d CE and I'm having trouble getting CIFS to work with kerberos/ldap…

[romgo]

Hello,

what kind of problem do you have ?

According to me the last release is alfresco 3.4.c, 3.4.d should be the next release ?

Regards

[eydun_n]

You can get 3.4.d from here: http://dev.alfresco.com/downloads/nightly/dist/

But, yes I think it's a pre-release - it gets updated about once a week. But by using it, you will get to exercise your backup, restore and upgrade strategy 😄

I can't login to CIFS with kerberos/ldap users. The log shows a kerberos logon error / java.lang.NullPointerException.