CIFS configuration

[isabel]

Hi everyone!

It's me again. I have a problem configuring CIFS. When I try to connect to Alfresco by going to Start > run > \\fbm-alfresco_A, a box would pop-up that would ask for my username and password. When I enter my alfresco username and password, the box would just re-appear and I can't log into it. I checked the logs and saw this line "user alia, access denied". alia is my login account for my machine. Do you have any idea on how to fix this problem?

Alfresco is running in Windows XP. Not under any domain, just workgroup.

Here's my configuration for CIFS:

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="CIFS Server">

   <serverEnable enabled="true"/>
   <host name="fbm-alfresco_a" domain="WORKGROUP"/>
   <comment>Alfresco CIFS Server</comment>

   <broadcast>255.255.255.0</broadcast>

   <tcpipSMB platforms="linux,solaris,macosx"/>
   <netBIOSSMB platforms="linux,solaris,macosx"/>
   <hostAnnounce interval="5"/>

   <Win32NetBIOS/>
   <Win32Announce interval="5"/>
   <sessionDebug flags="Negotiate,Socket"/>

   </config>

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Filesystem Security">

   <authenticator type="alfresco">
   </authenticator>

   </config>

Thanks in advance.
Isabel

[ivana_jeremic]

Have You tried: \\fbm-alfresco_A\alfresco

[isabel]

Have You tried: \\fbm-alfresco_A\alfresco

Yes, I've tried it but I still have the same problem.

Thanks for the reply. 😃
Isabel

[ivana_jeremic]

Try to change your computer name then restart your computer.
Try to access CIFS with new name.

It worked for me.

[ivana_jeremic]

Did You see this section of forum:
http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=938

[isabel]

Hey. Thanks again for the reply. I haven't seen that link. Even if I've tried to search and search the other day grr.. Anyways, thanks for the reply =). I'm going to check on that link.

Isabel

[norgan]

Hello Isabel,
I just replied to your PN and read this post afterwards. If you get a dialog with User/password, you are throught he firewall, so my remarks are more for the background

Regarding Login problems, I can just state, that you need to use the alfresco user/password, but Windows is a bit strange wiht handling passwords. When researchiv another problem with user "me" and hostuser "hme" from my mashine "xp-1" of the domain "bw", I found following logon attempts in my log
* me (my windows logon - has no rights at the host)
* bw\me (see above)
* xp1\me (nonexistent)
* bw\hme (nonexistent - hostuser + windows domain)

So it might be a windows problem. Try logging in with <host>\<username> or <targetip>\<username> or <username>@<host>

norgan

[jarrett]

Its kinda of silly but CIFS wasn't working for me on a linux install because the service was already running on the box so Alfresco couldn't start CIFS. I don't know what environment your running Alfresco in but your error messages matched mine.

[alarocca]

I guess that is due to the following (Windows) issue:


Native SMB collisions

Native SMB can be disabled by adding the following registry key :-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters] "SMBDeviceEnabled"=dword:00000000

A reboot is required after creating this key. Setting the value to one or deleting the registry key will restore native SMB support.

Best regards,
Alessandro