how to enable cifs in alfresco community version?

[shikha]

can anybody help in enabling cifs on alfresco community version.
or tell how to check whether cifs is enabled or not??

thankx in advance

[nancyg]

Hello -

There is quite a bit of info in the wiki, you should start here http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/CIFS and here is a list of other wiki pages https://newpartners.alfresco.com/share.

Nancy

[shikha]

thanks nancy for reply.
i go through these links but cifs is still not properly enabled.

[ed_aldridge]

That wiki page doesn't really help, I can't find any step by step guides to configuring CIFS on the latest build of the community edition, one document I found related to version 1.4 and 2.0 but things seem to have changed significantly since then, is the config done in the global.properties file as with the authentication or is it done elsewhere.

I am running Alfresco 3.3 CE on Centos 5.5

[mjrduffy]

Hi All,
Same problem.

I've followed:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/CIFS -> Setting up an Alfresco CIFS share on Windows

but still don't have it working. The registry change doesn't seem to disable SMB.

I'm running 3.3 CE on Win 2008.

Kind Regards,
Matt

[mjrduffy]

Help!

[lucky24]

CIFS = SMB

[shikha]

can anybody help???
is there not a single person who have enabled CIFS successfully??
if smbody enabled it plz help others too…..

thanks in advance

[dward]

With its out-of-the-box settings the CIFS server should start up. You don't need to do anything special to configure it.

The problem is getting it to co-exist with the CIFS server built into your Operating System. This is a particular challenge on Vista, Windows 2008 and Windows 7.

On Windows, so that it doesn't interfere with the CIFS server built into Windows, the Alfresco CIFS server pretends to be another host with the same name as the host running Alfresco, but with the letter 'a' at the end. So if Alfresco is running on host.domain.com, the CIFS server will be at \\hosta

Now it relies on intercepting NetBIOS calls in order to be able to do this. The problem is that new versions of Windows now prefer SMB over TCP to SMB over NetBIOS. This means that it will try to resolve hosta using a DNS lookup. If you ping hosta you'll find it has the same IP address as the actual host. This means that when trying to resolve \\hosta, Windows 2008 ends up going to the real CIFS port on the host machine.

The answer is to disable SMB over TCP/IP so that it falls back to SMB over NetBIOS.

In order to get local traffic to do this, you can add a line to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts so that hosta resolves via DNS lookup to a fake IP address. e.g.

192.168.192.192 hosta‍

In order to get other clients to do this, you may have to configure the Alfresco server as their DNS server, or use the firewall settings on the Alfresco server to block traffic on the SMB over TCP port 445.

All these problems exist because the Alfresco server is trying to co-exist with the CIFS server built into Windows. If you run Alfresco on a Linux host that doesn't have its own CIFS server, you of course won't have these problems.

[dirk1]

@shikka,

did you solved your problem?
I've had a lot trouble to bring CIFS to run.
It seemed to be a conflict with the ports, wich are used from the standard Samba utility of the OS.
To disable Samba did not solve the problem - I don't know why.
The solution is to reassign the ports of the Alfresco-CIFS-server.  
While I'm updating from 3.2 to 3.3 (this weekend) I have to manage this feature again.
If you want I take you part of this experience.

Which OS's are you using (Client and server)?
I am operating from Linux to Linux.