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

[david_labbe]

Anybody??

[jlabuelo]

Hi There

Dont know if this helps, but can you try to launch alfresco as an "Administrator User"? In linux OS, If you have all those ports open (TCP and UDP) you need to lauch alfresco using the SuperAdmin user (sudo) if not CIFS will not work, dont know if in Windows will be the same

Hope this helps, cheers

[david_labbe]

Hi jlabuelo ,

I have just tried your suggestion and it seems to work using the "run as admin" in windows… What I do not know is whether it is working because of that or whether my system is just temperamental as it has worked before on and off…

If it stays stable, then I have my answer. I'll keep you posted.

In the mean time, thanks for your help.

Cheers

David

[david_labbe]

there you go… without doing anything, 1 hr later, I can't access the CIFS shares… login/ password dialog poping up forever… I am totally confused…

[asmith]

I may have overlooked this in browsing the thread, but I had issues with CIFS until I disabled the windows file and printer sharing on the appropriate network adapters.  Alfresco and Windows file sharing just disagree.  There are some other posts on this board about that.  Regardless, I am still having some other issues with CIFS (http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=26792).  Anyway, just thought I'd mention it just in case.

[mcraven]

Look toward the end of this thread. It show what I did to get CIFS working on V3.3 under Windows 2003 server.

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=24209&p=86441#p86441

Regards,
Mark C.

[jlabuelo]

Hi David

I can tell you that once I configure CIFS ports on Linux Ubuntu and I launch it as an admin using the "sudo" command, it works fine and dont get the error pop up window when I try to access the shared network, Maybe the last post you got from mcraven, or asmith will work, but if not If I were you I would go for the linux option. I remember having also lots of problems with Windows and CIFS like you are explaining now

Cheers

[david_labbe]

Hi all,

Look toward the end of this thread. It show what I did to get CIFS working on V3.3 under Windows 2003 server.

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=24209&p=86441#p86441

thanks Mark for the link.. I will have a look at it asap.

I can tell you that once I configure CIFS ports on Linux Ubuntu and I launch it as an admin using the "sudo" command, it works fine and dont get the error pop up window when I try to access the shared network

I tried runnign the server as admin but it did not work.

Maybe the last post you got from mcraven, or asmith will work, but if not If I were you I would go for the linux option. I remember having also lots of problems with Windows and CIFS like you are explaining now

I will indeed look at the posts. With regards to linux, I am a great fan and would have gladly considered it but I can't as the server on which the app will eventually get deployed is a windows server and I can't change that. I might look into it for personal benefits though…

I'll keep you all posted on my progress with CIFS

Cheers

David

[mpierce]

Just wanted to share the fix to my mystery CIFS problem in case anyone runs into the same block. After looking back far enough, I found a flag that CIFS just DOES NOT WORK on 64-bit. Link and helpful info here: CIFS troubles.This was never fixed. I installed Windows 2008 x86 and the alfresco netbt name showed up. After disabling smb 2.0, I was able to map drives from every machine but the local one. Good enough for me!

[philippelr]

Hey,

I had the same problem, but I solved it this morning thanks to wgonzalez.
You can find my post, (and his answer especially), here:

http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=26941#p88033

Good Luck !