CIFS Configuration on Ubuntu

[mautidavis]

Dear all,

I'm trying to configure CIFS on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 but it seems like it is not working. What might be the problem?

I have installed PostgreSQL as the database and enabled CIFS in alfresco-global.properties. When I try to access alfresco repository from windows by running \\[Alfresco server IP address] I get a message that the path cannot be found.

I'm using Alfresco 4.0.

My alfresco-global.properties file is as shown below:

dir.root=/home/*****/alfresco/alf_data

alfresco.context=alfresco
alfresco.host=127.0.0.1
alfresco.port=8080
alfresco.protocol=http

share.context=share
share.host=127.0.0.1
share.port=8080
share.protocol=http

### database connection properties ###
db.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
db.username=alfresco
db.password=**********
db.name=alfresco
db.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/${db.name}

### FTP Server Configuration ###
ftp.enabled=true
ftp.port=2121
ftp.ipv6.enabled=false

### RMI service ports ###
alfresco.rmi.services.port=50500
avm.rmi.service.port=0
avmsync.rmi.service.port=0
attribute.rmi.service.port=0
authentication.rmi.service.port=0
repo.rmi.service.port=0
action.rmi.service.port=0
deployment.rmi.service.port=0

### External executable locations ###
ooo.exe=/home/*******/alfresco/openoffice/program/soffice.bin
ooo.enabled=true
ooo.port=8100
ooo.port=8100
img.root=/home/******/alfresco/common
img.dyn=${img.root}/lib
img.exe=${img.root}/bin/convert
swf.exe=/home/******/alfresco/common/bin/pdf2swf
jodconverter.enabled=false 
jodconverter.officeHome=/home/******/alfresco/openoffice 
jodconverter.portNumbers=8100 

### Initial admin password ###
alfresco_user_store.adminpassword=8aa95feb41041e230efcb7fc95b85585

### E-mail site invitation setting ###
notification.email.siteinvite=false

### File Protocol Root ###
protocols.rootPath=/${spaces.company_home.childname}/${spaces.sites.childname}

### License location ###
dir.license.external=/home/***********/alfresco

### Solr indexing ###
index.subsystem.name=solr
dir.keystore=${dir.root}/keystore
solr.port.ssl=8443

### BPM Engine ###
system.workflow.engine.jbpm.enabled=false

### CIFS Server Configuration - just added this on 6th August 2012 ###
cifs.enabled=true
cifs.serverName=****.***.****.***
cifs.domain=***************.***.***
cifs.broadcast=255.255.255.0
# An empty value indicates bind to all available network adapters
cifs.bindto=
cifs.ipv6.enabled=false
cifs.hostannounce=true
# Enable the use of asynchronous sockets/NIO code
cifs.disableNIO=false
# Disable the use of JNI code. Only currently affects Windows
cifs.disableNativeCode=false
# Session timeout, in seconds. Defaults to 15 minutes, to match the default Windows client setting.
# If no I/O is received within that time the session is closed by the server
cifs.sessionTimeout=900

# Can be mapped to non-privileged ports, then use firewall rules to forward requests from the standard ports
cifs.tcpipSMB.port=445
cifs.netBIOSSMB.sessionPort=139
cifs.netBIOSSMB.namePort=137
cifs.netBIOSSMB.datagramPort=138 ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

The catalina.out:

2012-08-07 05:17:46,633  INFO  [module.vti.VtiServer] [main] Vti server started successfully on port: 7070
 2012-08-07 05:17:46,634  INFO  [module.vti.VtiServer] [main] Vti server SessionIdManagerWorkerName: jetty1
 2012-08-07 05:17:54,838  WARN  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] [main] Unable to register script classpath:webscripts/org/springframework/extensions/cmis/content.get.desc.xml due to error: 07070000 Web Script document org/springframework/extensions/cmis/content.get.desc.xml is attempting to define the url '/cmis/content:GET' already defined by org/alfresco/cmis/client/content.get.desc.xml
 2012-08-07 05:17:54,838  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] [main] Registered 464 Web Scripts (+1 failed), 731 URLs
 2012-08-07 05:17:54,838  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] [main] Registered 2 Package Description Documents (+0 failed) 
 2012-08-07 05:17:54,838  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] [main] Registered 1 Schema Description Documents (+0 failed) 
 2012-08-07 05:17:54,840  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] [main] Initialised Repository Web Script Container (in 8157.4824ms)
 2012-08-07 05:17:54,852  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] [main] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
 2012-08-07 05:17:54,853  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] [main] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
 Aug 7, 2012 5:17:59 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor manager.xml
Aug 7, 2012 5:18:00 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive share.war
2012-08-07 05:18:00,595  INFO  [alfresco.util.OpenOfficeConnectionTester] [DefaultScheduler_Worker-3] The OpenOffice connection was re-established.
 2012-08-07 05:18:06,993  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] [main] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
 2012-08-07 05:18:07,167  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] [main] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
 2012-08-07 05:18:07,168  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] [main] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
 2012-08-07 05:18:07,172  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] [main] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
 2012-08-07 05:18:09,733  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] [main] Registered 312 Web Scripts (+0 failed), 322 URLs
 2012-08-07 05:18:09,734  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] [main] Registered 8 Package Description Documents (+0 failed) 
 2012-08-07 05:18:09,734  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] [main] Registered 0 Schema Description Documents (+0 failed) 
 2012-08-07 05:18:09,935  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] [main] Initialised Spring Surf Container Web Script Container (in 2756.6853ms)
 2012-08-07 05:18:09,940  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] [main] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
 2012-08-07 05:18:09,944  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] [main] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
 Aug 7, 2012 5:18:10 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory ROOT
Aug 7, 2012 5:18:10 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Aug 7, 2012 5:18:10 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
Aug 7, 2012 5:18:10 AM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/34  config=null
Aug 7, 2012 5:18:10 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8443
Aug 7, 2012 5:18:10 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 91940 ms
2012-08-07 05:18:40,473  INFO  [web.site.EditionInterceptor] [http-8080-4] Successfully retrieved license information from Alfresco.
 2012-08-07 05:21:19,670  INFO  [web.scripts.DictionaryQuery] [http-8080-16] Successfully retrieved dictionary information from Alfresco.‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

[mautidavis]

Dear all,

I opened port 139 and 445 and now I can reach my Alfresco server but when I type \\[AlfrescoServerIPAddress] I get a blank window - it connects but does not list any folder. When I type \\[AlfrescoServerIPAddress]\alfresco I get a message that the path cannot be found. I'm trying to connect from Windows and the Alfresco server is running on a Ubuntu Linux.

Do I need to change the cifs.urlfile.prefix=http://${localname}/alfresco/ to something like: cifs.urlfile.prefix=\\${localname}\alfresco\ in alfresco properties file?

Your guidance will be appreciated.

BTW, I can access the folders when I type: http://AlfrescoServerIP:8080/alfresco/webdav on a browser.

The error message on alfresco.log file is:

11:05:53,231 ERROR [org.alfresco.fileserver] [SMB] Server error : org.alfresco.jlan.server.config.InvalidConfigurationException: Error initializing TCP-IP SMB session handler, Permission denied
11:05:53,261 INFO  [org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Starting 'imap' subsystem, ID: [imap, default]
11:05:53,277 ERROR [org.alfresco.fileserver] Error from JLAN
org.alfresco.jlan.server.config.InvalidConfigurationException: Error initializing TCP-IP SMB session handler, Permission denied
   at org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.nio.NIOCifsConnectionsHandler.initializeHandler(NIOCifsConnectionsHandler.java:259)
   at org.alfresco.jlan.smb.server.SMBServer.run(SMBServer.java:475)
   at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Any ideas on this issue?

Regards,
Davis Onsakia

[bisana]

you need to redirect the port settings

modprobe iptable_nat
iptables -F
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp –dport 445 -j DNAT –to-destination :1445
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp –dport 445 -j DNAT –to-destination :1445
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp –dport 137:139 -j DNAT –to-destination :1137-1139
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp –dport 137:139 -j DNAT –to-destination :1137-1139
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From
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/File_Server_Configuration

[mautidavis]

Dear bisana,

The suggested commands have completely messed up my Alfresco installation! How can I go back to the way things were, basically undo the effects of those commands? I cannot now even access the login page despite Alfresco having started successfully.

Regards,
Davis

[bisana]

sudo iptables -F

[mautidavis]

Have just run that command and it seems it is working okay save for the fact that I cannot now access Alfresco over the network - I cannot access Alfresco Share or Explorer using the server name or IP address on a broswser from another computer. I can access Share or Explorer on the Alfresco server alone. What can I do to access Alfresco on another computer?

Thanks in advance.

[mautidavis]

I have managed to sort out the issue of Alfresco not being accessible from another computer.

Now to my initial problem: how can I access the Alfresco repository from a Windows computer? \\AlfrescoServerIP just displays a blank page and \\AlfrescoServerIP\alfresco indicates that the path is not found. Any ideas to solve this problem are most welcome.

[mrogers]

I presume you have sorted out binding the alfresco and share host to the loopback address.

Your setting for cifs.serverName does not look correct.
cifs.serverName=****.***.****.***
It should be a name for NetBios not an IP address.    By default it would be {Servername}A

Are you using port forwarding or not?

If you are using your settings below then you will need to run alfresco as root.
cifs.tcpipSMB.port=445
cifs.netBIOSSMB.sessionPort=139
cifs.netBIOSSMB.namePort=137
cifs.netBIOSSMB.datagramPort=138

[mautidavis]

Dear Mrogers,

Thanks for your guidance.

I've changed the cifs.serverName settings and restarted Alfresco (and the server itself) but still I cannot access the alfresco folder over the network.

I'm logged in as root and hence starting alfresco as root. I'm not using port forwarding (it messed my application when I tried it).

One thing I want to know: since I can access the Alfresco folder over the network using Samba, which specific folder can I map so that scanned documents can directly be delivered to a specific folder in the document library of a specific site in Alfresco?

Your guidance is always appreciated.

Regards,
Davis Onsakia

[bisana]

Hi Davis
Did you said you are going to configure SAMBA instance to share Alfresco folder, I dont think it is a good idea
If you check the IPTABLES command , it shows that SAMBA ports are redirected.
Thanks