Alfresco2 CIFS configuration 'duplicate name'

[quayfee]

Hi All,

This is probably a very basic question, so I apologise in advance…

I having  real fight with CIFS. Whenever the the server is rebooted the server name for Alfresco  gets duplicated preventing connection from a remote machine.

Having read the posts already on this forum on a similar subject I've tried changing the hostname in file-server.xml and restarted lanmanserver, this solves the problem as far as usability is oncerned until the next reboot, a which time the new host name is duplicated preventing connection.

Here's the output rom nbtstat -n on the server

                NetBIOS Local Name Table

       Name               Type         Status
    ———————————————
    SERVER         <00>  UNIQUE      Registered
    NORFOLK        <00>  GROUP       Registered
    SERVER         <20>  UNIQUE      Registered
    ALFRESCO-SERVER<20>  UNIQUE      Registered
    ALFRESCO-SERVER<00>  UNIQUE      Registered
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Both server and remote are windowsXP SP2. It's a standard P2P network run on one workgroup and subnet with only a max 5 machines, so nothing complex.

Any thought / recommendations / advice onhow to solve this problemwould be gratefully received.

Thanks

Keith

[quayfee]

Bump!

Anyone?

[mattruby]

I'm running into the same issues.  I've installed Alfresco on my local machine.  Every time I try to hit CIFS I get the "A duplicate name exists on the network" message. 

I've changed the host name as well. 

Anyone have any advice?

[gary_spencer]

Hi,

Are you using WINS or broadcast lookups for NetBIOS ?.

You could try switching off native SMB/port 445 and see if that helps (there's some info at the bottom of this page on the wiki http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Configuration).

Cheers

Gary

[mattruby]

Thank you!! 

That did the trick.  I commented out:
<tcpipSMB platforms="linux,solaris,macosx"/>
in file-servers.xml

And I added the registry key detailed on the WIKI.  I'm now able to mount virtview.

Thanks again!

[thomasfinney]

Has anyone found a solution to this issue which allows me to keep file sharing on. I ask because there are some situations where smb sharing is needed, such as a single server enviroment.