Guest user... 'Company Home' invisible in web client!

[theorbix]

Hello,

On my company Alfresco server, I have noticed that when someone connects to the Web Client as a guest user, the link to the "Company Home" folder is hidden in the Web Client toolbar.

How can this be possible?

I have checked the permissions on the "Company Home" space, and the EVERYONE user of the GROUP_EVERYONE group has Consumer access to this space. Beside this, most of the spaces behind the "Company Home" root are configured to inherit the permissions from the parent space.

So I assume that when logging into the Web Client as a guest, the user should see the "Company Home" link and be able to navigate in the hierarchy of company spaces.

Instead, the guest user is forced to see only his home space and the "My Alfresco" dashboard…

Does anybody have an explaination for this?

[theorbix]

I think I found the reason… there must be something wrong in the "Guest" account.

I explicitely assigned to the Guest user the Consumer role on the \CompanyRoot space, then I logged into the Web Client as a guest, and the Company Root link on the toolbar and the Company Root space in the Navigator pane continue to remain invisible…

This is weird…. I believe I will open a support case.

[theorbix]

Good news… it turns out that the problem has disappeared once we did the following:
1) disabled LDAP authentication (our Alfesco server is bound to the corporate LDAP server, so all users usually login using their corporate password)
2) removed the Guest account from the Alfresco user database
3) created a new "guest" account (all lowercase)
4) on the Company Home ACL, re-assigned the consumer role to the "guest" account
5) re-enabled the LDAP authentication.

It seems the problem was happening because our "guest" account had been defined as "Guest" (with the first G in upper case)…