Alfresco as ftp-server

[leitoo0]

Hello,

I have configured Alfresco and the web front end works but now I want to configure Alfresco ftp server:
I have the following entries in /usr/share/tomcat/tomcat-2/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties:

[…]

### FTP Server Configuration ###
ftp.enabled=true
ftp.port=1121
ftp.ipv6.enabled=false

[…]
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But the ftp server seems not to work. When I try to connect to ftp localhost:1121/alfresco
I get the following error : ftp: localhost:1121/alfresco: Name or service not known

I really don't know what to do now ? Can somebody help me ?
Thanks in advance.

[mrogers]

Are you connecting from the same machine or a different one?   If different then "localhost" will not work.   Also what O.S. are you using since the networking is different.  

There should be a log message from the "filesystem subsystem" confirming that the ftp server has started correctly,  do you see it?

Also try to connect to the host's external IP address rather than "localhost".

[leitoo0]

Thanks for the quick answer.

I'm trying to connect from the same machine so localhost should normally works. I've also try from another machine with the IP adress, but doesn't work neither.

I'am using Fedora 17. Moreover

netstat -ntpl‍

don't list the port 1121 as listened

Where can be this log file (filesystem subsystem) located ?

Thanks in advance.

[leitoo0]

I have the below errors in alfresco.log :

 13:42:18,440 ERROR [org.alfresco.fileserver] [FTP] FTP Socket error : java.net.BindException: Permission denied
13:42:18,447 ERROR [org.alfresco.fileserver] Error from JLAN
java.net.BindException: Permission denied
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Native Method)
        at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.bind(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:376)
        at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(ServerSocket.java:376)
        at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(ServerSocket.java:237)
        at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(ServerSocket.java:181)
        at org.alfresco.jlan.ftp.FTPServer.run(FTPServer.java:554)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
13:42:18,477 ERROR [org.alfresco.fileserver] [SMB] Server error : org.alfresco.jlan.server.config.InvalidConfigurationException: Error initializing TCP-IP SMB session handler, Permission denied
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How to avoid this permission denied error ?
The port using for ftp is higher than 1024 (1121).

Thanks in advance.

[mrogers]

I suspect it's still trying to use port 21.  its a pity the bind exception does not have the port number…    Your config looks correct.  Is any of your config working?  And is it tomcat / tomcat 2 correct?

[bisana]

I think you need to use iptables to redirect request for port 21 to port 1121

[leitoo0]

Thanks for your help,

@mrogers : yes the /tomcat/tomcat-2 is correct. I tried to launch tomcat as "root" but I still have the same error. I really don't know what to do.

@bisana : I tried to redirect the port 21 using the command

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp –dport 21 -j REDIRECT –to-port 1121‍

. But don't works neither.

Any other idea ?

[mrogers]

The only other thing that it could be is the hostname or IP address that you are binding to.  Occasionaly linux boxes can have problems resolving their own hostname if the /etc/hosts (or equivalenet) file is not configured correctly.

[bisana]

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp –dport 21 -j REDIRECT –to-ports 1121
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -d 127.0.0.1 -p tcp -m tcp –dport 21  -j REDIRECT –to-ports 1121
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Hope it helps

[leitoo0]

Thanks again for your help. I think my problem come in fact upstream.
It look like my

alfresco-global.properties‍

isn't used by alfresco, I notice that Alfresco try to use port 21.

I setted up two instance in addition of the Tomcat home instance. So :
- one for CMDBuild located at

/usr/share/tomcat/tomcat-1/‍

- a second for Alfresco located at

/usr/share/tomcat/tomcat-2/‍

- and the Home tomcat directory at

/usr/share/tomcat6/‍

.

I put every correctly every Alfresco file in

/usr/share/tomcat/tomcat-2/‍

in webapps and shared directory. My

alfresco-global.properties‍

file is located at

/usr/share/tomcat/tomcat-2/shared/alfresco‍

.This file contains :

[…]
dir.root=/var/alfresco/alf_data/
dir.keystore=${dir.root}/keystore
[…]
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but I recently notice that alfresco put his files to :

/usr/share/tomcat6/alf_data/‍

instead of

/var/alfresco/alf_data/‍

. I don't know why ?!

How to check wheter alfresco use my properties file or non ?

Thanks in advance.