Configuring SharePoint Protocol

[gmurphy]

All,

I am fairly new to Alfresco and am trying to configure the Alfresco Protocol to work with Office 2007.

I have configured the custom.vti.properties file to say the following after installing the vti amp:


vti.server.port=7070
vti.alfresco.deployment.context=http://25.165.1.148:7070/alfresco
vti.share.shareHostWithPort=http://25.165.1.148:8080


I am using office 2007 and keep getting the following error when I try to create a Workspace.


"The action could not be completed. For more information, contact your site administrator, or try again later,"


Has anyone any ideas on what I might be doing wrong.

Gerald

[dward]

The alfrescoNtlm and passthru subsystems support NTLM-based authentication for the Sharepoint protocol. I.e. this means your operating system credentials would be propagated to Alfresco without a login prompt. NTLM-based SSO can only be handled by a single subsystem in your authentication chain (due to limitations of the protocol), i.e. the first one with SSO enabled.

By default, alfrescoNtlm has SSO disabled. To switch it on you would add.

ntlm.authentication.sso.enabled=true

This would mean that all authentication with Alfresco (including sharepoint protocol) uses NTLM rather than username/password.

By default, passthru has SSO enabled. So if you include that in your chain then all SSO traffic would be handled by the domain server.

I hope that makes sense. You basically have to decide whether you want password-based login (in which case you can use any user account from any subsystem in your chain) or NTLM-based SSO (in which case only users with domain accounts will be able to sign in).

[_sax]

Thank you!
I originally had a test upgrade from 2.9b with ldap-synced users. Maybe that imposed a problem.
Now, after a reset and a new importation of users, I'm able to sign on as admin and with the credentials of an imported user.

authentication.chain=userauthentificationassthru,ldapsync:ldap-ad

But as soon, as I switch on sso in passthru, I cannot authenticate anymore via SPP. I can still autosignon via browser and CIFS, but SPP is not accepting anything: neither the admin, nor my user credentials.

15:55:49,050 DEBUG [org.alfresco.module.vti.web.VtiFilter] Checking request for VTI or not
15:55:49,051 DEBUG [org.alfresco.module.vti.web.VtiFilter] Return VTI answer for HEAD request
15:55:49,051 DEBUG [org.alfresco.module.vti.web.VtiFilter] Check authentication
15:55:49,051 DEBUG [org.alfresco.module.vti.web.VtiFilter] Session user is null. Authenticate user.

ldap-auth is disabled,
ldap.authentication.active=false
because I'm only using it for importing user data.

So I'm a bit uncertain about the source of that problem.

[dward]

Please log a JIRA issue. This needs investigating.

[_sax]

I unwillingly overlooked http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/3.0_Configuring_NTLM#Alfresco_Share_SSO_using_NTLM which provides steps to enable SSO for Share. But taking those doesn't make a difference for me, so I filed an issue.
https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-3234

[dward]

You were right to overlook that article. It begins with the text

Please Note: This article describes configuration methods now outdated in the Alfresco version 3.2 release. For a more up to date description, refer to Alfresco Authentication Subsystems.

You shouldn't have to do anything fancy to turn on NTLM anymore besides using passthru or alfrescoNtlm and setting the sso flag to true.

I have logged this JIRA on your behalf

https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-2534

[_sax]

Thank you, so I double-overlooked this config page!
(Seems, like it could be confusing to still have those options in. Are there other points of usage for them?)

Since I also logged an issue, I connected mine with yours, again thanks for making it a blocker.
https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-2534
https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALFCOM-3234

[dward]

FYI experimental support for SPP + passthru has been checked in to HEAD. You will need to build from SVN if you want to try this. See http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Development_Environment

[_sax]

This is excellent, thank you for the information!

Regarding the JIRA database, is there a timeframe set, that 3.3 will be released in?
https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&sorter/order=DESC&s...

Right now, the're pending issues for 3.2 listed, may that simply be a due cleanup?
https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&sorter/order=DESC&s...

[mikeh]

A lot of the "fix for 3.2" issues will be considered and the fixed for 3.2 Enterprise (which isn't released yet). They'll then be merged to HEAD and so become available in Community 3.3.

There's no release date for v3.3 yet, as we're still finalising requirements.

Thanks,
Mike

[_sax]

Since they are tagged for Community 3.2, I was a little mislead (https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&pid=10103&status=1&fixfor=104...). But thanks a lot for the clarification!