Alfresco 4 with CIFS and Active Directory

[bkildow]

I recently did an install of Alfresco 4.a nightly on a Mac server. I have configured active directory auth, sync, and cifs. I'm able to log into cifs via another Mac, but from Windows (XP), I get the following when I connect to a network place via \\<server-ip>\alfresco.

11:32:19,854 DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Mapped client /<my-client-ip-address> to domain null
11:32:19,855 DEBUG [org.alfresco.fileserver] Open authenticate session to [<my-domain>\<my-dc-host-name>:<my-dc-host-ip>:Online:24,Fri Sep 30 11:32:04 EDT 2011]
11:32:19,859 DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Passthru sessId=26, auth ctx=[NTLM,Challenge=f77d7530e38cce8a]
11:32:19,861 DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Null CIFS logon allowed, sess = T25
11:32:19,866 DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Using Write transaction
11:32:19,867 ERROR [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] org.alfresco.jlan.smb.SMBException: Invalid parameter
11:32:31,211 DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Closed auth session, sessId=26‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

Any ideas on what could be causing this?

[mrogers]

Are you trying to access from the same machine, so two separate installs.  Or trying to access the mac from windows XP.

[bkildow]

Are you trying to access from the same machine, so two separate installs.  Or trying to access the mac from windows XP.

I have one Mac server in which I have installed Alfresco. I am trying to access the CIFS interface (mount as a share), from various other platforms. I have a Mac desktop that is separate from the server, that I was able to mount a CIFS share on. However when trying to mount a share from Windows XP, I got the error displayed in my original post.

[bkildow]

It seems also that when I try to connect to the share, it will try and authenticate with the user "admin" first, then fail. Is this normal?

[bkildow]

I now got it authentication using my username by mapping a hostname to an IP in my hosts file. Connecting to the share with a hostname instead of an IP seems to help… I think I'm getting closer. One thing I've noticed is that my server doesn't show up in my network places if I browse. So I'm thinking there might be an issue with netBIOS vs tcpipSMB, although a lot of this is a bit over my head.

[rajaa90]

Hi,

You mentioned you can access from mac,  but having problem only with XP.  I cannot even access from MAC,  can you help me what did you do in steps to achieve this.
I am trying to access CIFS from the same MAC.

Thanks.

Raja

[rajaa90]

Additional information:

I use MAC mini server with Lion as OS.  I am confused with change in port requirements and logging as root user etc. 

In my alfresco I have admin user and no root user,  so,  I have tried everything and I am still not able to connect to the server.

Thanks for your help, anyone.

Raja

[msalihg]

Additional information:

I use MAC mini server with Lion as OS.  I am confused with change in port requirements and logging as root user etc. 

In my alfresco I have admin user and no root user,  so,  I have tried everything and I am still not able to connect to the server.

Thanks for your help, anyone.

Raja

Hi,
Are the both machines 32-bit? or one 32, the other 64-bit? If so this might be the problem.