Configure CFIS version 3.0

[larryton]

I have been spending nearly 2 days try to configure Alfresco to get the CFIS to work.  I have done a lot of reading but did not find anything.  Does anybody have any luck with this?  If you do can you point me to a right direction.

The version i'm trying right now is version Alfresco 3b running on Window XP using trial dB.

Thanks
Larry

[ivo_costa]

It should have worked out of the box,
are you sure you tried to access it the right way, or that you don't have anything blocking it?

[larryton]

I try to map the window drive to \\testserver\Alfresco but it returned failling message.  May be that is not proper way to do it.

Thanks

[ivo_costa]

Hi larry

by default if your computer name is testserver, Alfresco will map to testserver_a or testservera
you can also check what is Alfresco's CIFS corrent name in file-servers.xml in your config folder (if you're using tomcat this is \tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco)
or custom-file-servers.xml in your extensions folder (if you're using tomcat this is \tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\extensions)

check for a line like:

<host name="${cifs.localname}A" domain="${cifs.domain}"/>‍

I also faced a problem where you had to map the connection using a differente username but that was using Vista

check if any of these tips help, and post some feedback

[johnwehall]

I'm also having trouble with CIFS on Labs 3b (windows xp, tomcat, mysql). I tested it out of the box and no luck. I've modified the file-servers.xml about 30 times and no luck (I hard-coded the host name, changed the authentication type, etc.). When I use the out-of-the box configuration and hover over the "Open this Space in Windows Explorer" button, my web-browser status bar shows "file:\\\" . . . it's not mapped to anything. When I try to map a network drive it says "The network path jhall_della {or jhall_dell_a} cannot be found."

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[ivo_costa]

hi john

just tested "View in CIFS" (I don't seem to find "open"), and this doesn't work until you've succesfully authenticated through network drive or by running
"\\server_a\alfresco"

check if you can ping the server (if remote server)
check if you can ping to the alfresco servername

and check if you can find that particular service when typing:
nbtstat -A [server-IP]
(there should show up the alfresco nameserver)

[johnwehall]

thanks for the help.

I was able to get this working by moving the DLLs from the Alfresco/bin directory into my Windows/system32 folder.

Then I map the drive and the integration works.

Great!

[rpackard]

Hi Ivo and all,

We are testing Alfresco 3.0b on a 64-bit Windows Server 2008 machine.  Everything seems to work except the CFIS network map drive.  I placed a copy of the drivers in the bin directory to both windows wow 64, and windows 32 system folders.  However, when running the command nbtstat -a 192.168.x.x all the other servers show up, but not the Alfresco name server.  Any luck here from anyone else?

Ron

[larryton]

Thanks for all your replies.  After couple tries with community version the CFIS did not work.  But after I tried Enterprise version 3.0 it works.  I don't know what the different in the configuration file between Enterprise and community.  I would like to get the community version to work so could you post the file-servers-custom or any related configuration file.

Thanks
Larry

[smartlead]

Dear all,

I also have problem in connecting the CFIS from Windows 2003 Server to Windows 7.

< I ran into problem on Windows 7 client workstation to Windows 2003 Alfresco Server, the other Windows XP client works fine.
<And I am using Alfresco version 3.4 >
I ran my Windows 2003 Server VM, the native CFIS connection within VM is OK, but the connection from Windows 7 is the credentials
authentication, relogon.

I tried the method on disabling the network security
On the Win7 client in question… Control Panel, Admin Tools, Local Security Policy.
Navigate to Security Settings, Local Policies, Security Options –> Change "Network Security: LAN Manager authentication Level" to "Send LM and NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated".
Reboot just in case (not sure if it is needed), and didn't work at all, I also disable the File & Print services.

Any easy method on connecting the 2, need to set the registry value, but seems not work for somebody on the wiki,
please help