CIFS Issues on W2K3

[vcardoso]

I apologize in advance for the noob question below:

I've installed Alfresco Community Server 2.0 on a W2K3 server which is on a network, but there is no domain. I'm using the default HSQL database.

I am unable to mount the Alfresco share from any remote computer. Interestingly enough, when I look at the link in the web browser to mount the alfresco share, it only lists <mycomputername>_ not <mycomputername>_A as seems to be documented elsewhere. I don't know if this is indicative of a problem or not.

I can mount the share from the server machine, although I am prompted with a login dialog. If I enter "admin" with a password of "admin" it opens the drive folder.

From any other computer, tho, I am unable to mount the folder. From a WinXP machine, if I click on the drive folder in IE 7, I get the response:

"Cannot find 'file://harorlipubd001_/Alfresco/Guest%20Home'.Make sure the path or Internet address is correct."

I've searched through the forum for help and have read many CIFS posts, but am unable to find any that address my specific issue.

Note that this is a clean install of Alfresco 2.0 and that I have not modified any permissions or anything on any folders. Is this a permission error?

If someone could offer some advice, I'd certainly appreciate it.

Thanks,

-victor

[gary_spencer]

Hi,

The problem is your server name is 14 characters long, so when the '_A' gets appended to it using the standard configuration for the Alfresco CIFS server the name becomes too long for a NetBIOS name, the 'A' gets chopped off.

A NetBIOS name is 16 characters but the last character is used to specify the service type, such as file server, so there's a maximum of 15 characters for the server name.

In the file-servers.xml file change the <host name="${localname}_A"/> to something like <host name="HARORLIPUB_A"/> in the "CIFS Server" section of the configuration.

Cheers

Gary

[vcardoso]

Hi Gary!

Thanks for the quick response. Making the changes above did seem to resolve some of my issues. The network path is now correctly being saved. I'm still having issues with PC clients being able to connect to the CIFS volume, but I'm going to go back to the other forum posts and see if I can troubleshoot further.

Thanks!

-v