Alfresco CIFS problems

[fmorales]

Hello.

We have installed alfresco 2.2 entrerprise (official customer) under Centos 5.3 64 bits OS in a PE 2950 with 8G of RAM and one quadcore.

Our network is fine.

All works fine, but I notice that CIFS is very unstable, and users usually tell me that they have problems
when trying to copy large files or multiple files to an Alfresco directory using CIFS.  Users has windows XP SP2/SP3.

I can see that somepeople have same errors with alfresco 3.x … even there is a open ticked in jira asking about it:

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=20617
https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-1553

Does anybody know if CIFS works fine in Alfresco 2.2 enterprise?

Does anybody know if the error that you can see in the following links could be in 2.x version too?

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=20617
https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-1553

Any help would be very apreciated.

Thanks a lot

[jschoofs]

We have been experimenting quite a lot with the SMB interface on both the Labs and Enterprise 3.x version and we have given up. As you say it is extremely unstable and inconsistent in its behaviour. Sometimes I would be able to transfer several GBs of documents before things went wrong and sometimes it would fail on the very first file I tried to transfer!

We did our original tests on the Labs version and had hoped the Enterprise version would have a more stable SMB/CIFS interface. Unfortunately that has proved not to be the case. There are a lot of outstanding SMB/CIFS related issues and just take a look at how long ago some of this very serious issues were logged. Unacceptible for a product that is marketed as enterprise ready!

By the way: our Alfresco is running on top of a Suse Linux server. I wonder if the Windows-based installations have the same problems.

Good luck (you'll need it - as we do  :?

Johan

[dseybert]

Hello ,

Is there any update on this issue ETHREEOH-1553

[https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-1553]

We are having the same issue on labs stable 3.0 1526
Alfresco QA team has suggested using the following fix in file-servers.xml

   <disableChangeNotification/> <!– Add this line –>

Doing this change has not helped us so far.
Is this fix applicable to version 3.0 or only 3.1 and above.


Following exceptions appear in the log file.
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07:55:08,241 ERROR [org.alfresco.util.transaction.SpringAwareUserTransaction.trace] UserTransaction being garbage collected without a commit() or rollback().
   Started at:
      org.alfresco.util.transaction.SpringAwareUserTransaction.begin(SpringAwareUserTransaction.java:389)
      org.alfresco.filesys.alfresco.AlfrescoDiskDriver.beginTransaction(AlfrescoDiskDriver.java:332)
      org.alfresco.filesys.alfresco.AlfrescoDiskDriver.beginWriteTransaction(AlfrescoDiskDriver.java:180)
      org.alfresco.filesys.repo.ContentDiskDriver.closeFile(ContentDiskDriver.java:1822)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.NTProtocolHandler.procCloseFile(NTProtocolHandler.java:1386)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.NTProtocolHandler.runProtocol(NTProtocolHandler.java:251)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.SMBSrvSession.runHandler(SMBSrvSession.java:1344)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.SMBSrvSession.processPacket(SMBSrvSession.java:1436)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.CIFSThreadRequest.runRequest(CIFSThreadRequest.java:57)
      org.alfresco.jlan.server.thread.ThreadRequestPool$ThreadWorker.run(ThreadRequestPool.java:141)
      java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
07:55:08,335 ERROR [org.alfresco.util.transaction.SpringAwareUserTransaction.trace] UserTransaction being garbage collected without a commit() or rollback().
   Started at:
      org.alfresco.util.transaction.SpringAwareUserTransaction.begin(SpringAwareUserTransaction.java:389)
      org.alfresco.filesys.alfresco.AlfrescoDiskDriver.beginTransaction(AlfrescoDiskDriver.java:332)
      org.alfresco.filesys.alfresco.AlfrescoDiskDriver.beginWriteTransaction(AlfrescoDiskDriver.java:180)
      org.alfresco.filesys.repo.ContentDiskDriver.closeFile(ContentDiskDriver.java:1822)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.VirtualCircuit.closeCircuit(VirtualCircuit.java:474)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.SMBSrvSession.cleanupSession(SMBSrvSession.java:349)
      org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.SMBSrvSession.run(SMBSrvSession.java:1302)
      java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

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Any ideas or updates.

Regards

[sonnessa]

I've got the same problem with the version 3.0

I put the disableChangeNotification flag but the problem persists.

Best regards,
M