Cannot get CIFS to work?

[bergjes]

Hi,

I'm a complete noob, but i'm still trying to get Alfresco to work like a "shared drive".

I'm using Alfresco 3.2r2 on a Windows 7 computer.
I just installed Alfresco, without changing anything.

As far as I understand CIFS should work out of the box.
But as I try to access the CIFS server from explorer I cannot connect.
It keeps asking for a username and password, but whatever I try admin or administrator it
keeps coming back with the question for the username and password.

My computername = bergjes

in explorer I try to connect with \\bergjesA\Alfresco

Am I missing something?

Any help is welcome, thanks.

Erik

[brian_robinson]

That ought to work, but try the IP address instead.  \\192.168.1.100\alfresco for example.

[mbailey]

I am running into the same problem except on 3.3

My understanding was to use

\\YourMachineName_a\alfresco\Users\YourSpaceName

to map the drive or access it as a shared drive. I have tried ever which combination it seems to access it, however I have not yet been successful. I am currently running it on MS Windows 2008 R2 and attempting to access it using Windows 7 Pro.

[mrogers]

On 3.3 you should be able to connect to CIFS with the name in your
cifs.serverName property which by default is  ${localname}A.   (No underscore character.)

Out of the box you should be able to connect with username: "admin", password: "admin" unless you changed that account when you installed alfresco.

[mbailey]

Where is cifs.serverName stored, is it stored in a config file, if so which one? I searched file contents and was unable to find it.

I am assuming CIFS is enabled out of the box or do I need to make modifications to some config files to enable it?

–
Max.

[hydro]

I have tried on Windows XP. using version 3.3
CIFS does not work.
When a file is uploaded to any space, I click on the view details, and there is a CIFS link (just beside WEBDAV link) .
The link does not point to a valid location.

Can somebody in Alfresco do something about this!!
Its urgent!!
For bulk upload, it makes no sense to upload 1 file per time. Its just too time consuming.
Some kind of drag and drop functionality should exist, else alfresco will be useless.

[mpierce]

I've tried to get CIFS to work for months; now with 3.3 out, I thought I'd try again. Still no CIFS.

I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2. Mapping \\myservernameA\Alfresco gets a "windows cannot access" error. I've disabled native SMB per http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Subsystem#Vista_And_Windows_2008. NBTSTAT shows nothing but the server and the workgroup (no myservernameA). When I unbind \device\ in the netbt parameters, nbtstat doesn't work.

[brian_robinson]

Try setting the LmCompatibilityLevel to 1 on both the Windows 2008 server running alfresco and the Windows 7 client.  You shouldn't need to do this for a Windows XP client machine as far as I know.  Here is how to change the setting: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc960646.aspx

Thanks,
-Brian

[jlabuelo]

Hi there
et me explain you how we got it to work. We have installed Alfresco in a Linux Ubuntu machine nd we work with it from Windows XP and 7 machines in the office.

To move big quantities of files we use CIFs which uses to take us some time to configure even steps in the manuals are quite simple.

Finally we got it to work mapping a network drive in Windows machines to the IP address of the Alfresco Ubuntu Server, not including A at the end even it is in the manuals and neither using the machine name Ej: \\192.168.1.10\Alfresco and using an existing alfresco account.

We were not able to get it to work until we realized that we need to make sure that ports 445 137 138 139 were open. Normally when you are trying to get access to CIFS from a second machine and it takes a long time to connect returning an error message at the end it is because the conection could not be established, Did you check if  these ports are open in your server?

Hope this helps

[david_labbe]

Hi there,

I am also a bit of a neeb on Alfresco and face some challenging issues with CIFS.

Config: alfresco community 3.3 - Vista SP 1

The problem is that it randomly works and I cannot figure out why it starts working or stops working. I have followed all the possible steps in the (numerous) threads on the matter and still can't figure out.

if I issue a nbtstat -a <my alfresco server ip>, I can see the <my alfresco server>A entry (twice, but I guess it must normal as <my computer> also shows twice)

if I issue a net use command to map the drive, I get a "System error 86" specified network password not correct.

If i go to my explorer and try to get \\<my alfresco server>A\alfresco, I get the login dialog, but it systematically fails on the password / username.

I did the steps of updating the registry with [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters] "SMBDeviceEnabled"=dword:00000000

I checked that both ports 139 and 445 are available and they are…


I am at a loss… the worst bit is that sometimes it works and I go yipeeee, but then it stops again and I can't figure out why…

Any help would be greatly appreciated