Ldap Authentication fails on v3.3.1

[nondum]

Hi
I tried configuring ldap on alfresco but ldap authentication failed I can’t log in as admin neither with my active directory credentials. please help in need ldap authintecatoin & synchronisation to work
global.properties file: 

 authentication.chain=ldap1:ldap
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ldap-authentication.properties

ldap.authentication.active=true
ldap.authentication.java.naming.factory.initial=com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory
ldap.authentication.java.naming.security.authentication=DIGEST-MD5
ldap.authentication.userNameFormat=CN=%s,cn=Users,dc=dynatechis,dc=co,dc=za
ldap.authentication.java.naming.provider.url=ldap://192.168.1.17:389
ldap.authentication.java.naming.security.principal=CN=alfresco,CN=Users,DC=dynatechis,DC=co,DC=za
ldap.authentication.java.naming.security.credentials=alfresco
ldap.authentication.defaultAdministratorUserNames=DT212,0170
ldap.authentication.escapeCommasInBind=false
ldap.authentication.escapeCommasInUid=false‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

log file:

09:11:21,140  INFO  [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Starting 'Authentication' subsystem, ID: [Authentication, managed, ldap1]
09:11:21,187  INFO  [alfresco.config.JndiPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/alfresco-shared.properties]
09:11:22,500  ERROR [authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl] Unable to connect to LDAP Server; check LDAP configuration
javax.naming.CommunicationException: openldap.domain.com:389 [Root exception is java.net.UnknownHostException: openldap.domain.com]
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:210)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.<init>(LdapClient.java:118)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.getInstance(LdapClient.java:1580)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.connect(LdapCtx.java:2652)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.<init>(LdapCtx.java:293)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getUsingURL(LdapCtxFactory.java:175)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getUsingURLs(LdapCtxFactory.java:193)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getLdapCtxInstance(LdapCtxFactory.java:136)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getInitialContext(LdapCtxFactory.java:66)
   at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:667)
   at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:288)
   at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:223)
   at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:197)
   at javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.<init>(InitialDirContext.java:82)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.afterPropertiesSet(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:293)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1460)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1398)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:512)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:450)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:290)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:287)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:189)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:322)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:106)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1305)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1067)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:511)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:450)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:290)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:287)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:189)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:557)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:842)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:416)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory$ApplicationContextState.start(ChildApplicationContextFactory.java:624)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.start(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:458)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.start(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:440)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.getState(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:221)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory.getApplicationContext(ChildApplicationContextFactory.java:336)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.DefaultChildApplicationContextManager$ApplicationContextManagerState.getApplicationContext(DefaultChildApplicationContextManager.java:289)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.DefaultChildApplicationContextManager$ApplicationContextManagerState.start(DefaultChildApplicationContextManager.java:248)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.start(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:458)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.start(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:440)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.getState(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:221)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.DefaultChildApplicationContextManager.getInstanceIds(DefaultChildApplicationContextManager.java:145)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChainingSubsystemProxyFactory$1.invoke(ChainingSubsystemProxyFactory.java:64)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:172)
   at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:202)
   at $Proxy232.isActive(Unknown Source)
   at org.alfresco.filesys.config.ServerConfigurationBean.processCIFSServerConfig(ServerConfigurationBean.java:170)
   at org.alfresco.filesys.AbstractServerConfigurationBean.init(AbstractServerConfigurationBean.java:469)
   at org.alfresco.filesys.AbstractServerConfigurationBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractServerConfigurationBean.java:818)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:97)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:294)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:858)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:419)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory$ApplicationContextState.start(ChildApplicationContextFactory.java:624)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.start(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:458)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:386)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:97)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:78)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:294)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:858)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:419)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:261)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:192)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)
   at org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:63)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3972)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4467)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:637)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:563)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:498)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: openldap.domain.com
   at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
   at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
   at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:525)
   at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:475)
   at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:372)
   at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:186)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.createSocket(Connection.java:352)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:187)
   … 93 more
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thanks

[ssaravanan]

In my set up I was using ldap-ad (for user registry sync ) and passthru authentication chain , as I want to use CIFS as well.
I placed my ldap-authentication.properties under the folder tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/Authentication/ldap-ad/ldap1/
and edited the alfresco-global.properties to have

authentication.chain=alfinst:alfrescoNtlm,passthru1assthru,ldap1:ldap-ad

and I remember I edited the tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/alfrescoNtlm/alfresco-authentication.properties
to have

alfresco.authentication.authenticateCIFS=false

I am not sure this will be of any help for you

Your error log  shows that its getting authenticated against  openldap.domain.com:389 and not 192.168.1.17:389
so check whether you have placed your config file ldap-authentication.properties in the correct classpath…
By default it picks up the file at tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/ldap-authentication.properties

Unable to connect to LDAP Server; check LDAP configuration
javax.naming.CommunicationException: openldap.domain.com:389 [Root exception is java.net.UnknownHostException: openldap.domain.com]

[nondum]

Hi ssaravanan

thanks for the response.I tried to configure it using this method

authentication.chain=alfinst:alfrescoNtlm,passthru1assthru,ldap1:ldap-ad

and it is till not working it gave me this error

net.sf.acegisecurity.AuthenticationServiceException: Failed to open passthru auth session

.

passthru change properties file

passthru.authentication.useLocalServer=false
passthru.authentication.servers=DOMAIN\\192.168.1.119
passthru.authentication.defaultAdministratorUserNames=admin

ldap.authentication.java.naming.provider.url=ldap://192.168.1.17:389
ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.principal=0170@dynatechis.co.za
ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.credentials=nkah02

ntlm.authentication.sso.enabled=true
alfresco.authentication.allowGuestLogin=false
ntlm.authentication.mapUnknownUserToGuest=false
passthru.authentication.authenticateCIFS=true
passthru.authentication.authenticateFTP=false
passthru.authentication.guestAccess=false
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CiFS change.properties

filesystem.name=Alfresco

filesystem.domainMappings=Dynatechis.co.za
filesystem.domainMappings.value.DOMAIN.rangeFrom=192.168.1.119
filesystem.domainMappings.value.DOMAIN.rangeTo=192.168.1.190

cifs.enabled=true
cifs.localname=Alftest.Dynatechis.co.za
cifs.domain=Dynatechis.co.za
cifs.hostannounce=true
cifs.urlfile.prefix=http://192.168.1.119:8080/alfresco/

cifs.broadcast=192.168.1.190
cifs.bindto=192.168.1.119
cifs.ipv6=disabled

ftp.enabled=false
ftp.ipv6=disabled
nfs.enabled=false‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

log file

08:23:03,093 User:System INFO  [security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer] Synchronizing users and groups with user registry 'ldap1'
08:23:03,093 User:System INFO  [security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer] Retrieving all groups from user registry 'ldap1'
08:23:03,140 User:System ERROR [security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer] Synchronization aborted due to error
org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationException: 09280000 Unable to connect to LDAP Server; check LDAP configuration
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.buildInitialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:114)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.getDefaultIntialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:85)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.getDefaultIntialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:76)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ldap.LDAPUserRegistry$3.<init>(LDAPUserRegistry.java:658)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ldap.LDAPUserRegistry.getGroups(LDAPUserRegistry.java:655)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.syncWithPlugin(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:579)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.synchronize(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:405)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer$5.doWork(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:1413)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationUtil.runAs(AuthenticationUtil.java:508)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.onBootstrap(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:1407)
   at org.springframework.extensions.surf.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:56)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:97)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:294)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:858)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:419)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory$ApplicationContextState.start(ChildApplicationContextFactory.java:624)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.start(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:458)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:386)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:97)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:78)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:294)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:858)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:419)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:261)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:192)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)
   at org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:63)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3972)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4467)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:637)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:563)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:498)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
Caused by: javax.naming.CommunicationException: domaincontroller.company.com:389 [Root exception is java.net.UnknownHostException: domaincontroller.company.com]
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:210)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.<init>(LdapClient.java:118)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClientFactory.createPooledConnection(LdapClientFactory.java:46)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.pool.Connections.<init>(Connections.java:97)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.pool.Pool.getPooledConnection(Pool.java:114)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapPoolManager.getLdapClient(LdapPoolManager.java:310)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.getInstance(LdapClient.java:1572)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.connect(LdapCtx.java:2652)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.<init>(LdapCtx.java:293)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getUsingURL(LdapCtxFactory.java:175)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getUsingURLs(LdapCtxFactory.java:193)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getLdapCtxInstance(LdapCtxFactory.java:136)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getInitialContext(LdapCtxFactory.java:66)
   at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:667)
   at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:288)
   at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:223)
   at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:197)
   at javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.<init>(InitialDirContext.java:82)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.buildInitialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:105)
   … 50 more
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: domaincontroller.company.com
   at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
   at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
   at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:525)
   at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:475)
   at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:372)
   at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:186)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.createSocket(Connection.java:352)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:187)
   … 68 more
08:23:03,203 User:System WARN  [security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer] Failed initial synchronize with user registries
org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationException: 09280000 Unable to connect to LDAP Server; check LDAP configuration
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.buildInitialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:114)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.getDefaultIntialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:85)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.getDefaultIntialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:76)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ldap.LDAPUserRegistry$3.<init>(LDAPUserRegistry.java:658)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ldap.LDAPUserRegistry.getGroups(LDAPUserRegistry.java:655)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.syncWithPlugin(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:579)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.synchronize(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:405)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer$5.doWork(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:1413)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationUtil.runAs(AuthenticationUtil.java:508)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.onBootstrap(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:1407)
   at org.springframework.extensions.surf.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:56)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:97)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:294)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:858)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:419)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory$ApplicationContextState.start(ChildApplicationContextFactory.java:624)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.start(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:458)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:386)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:97)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:78)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:294)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:858)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:419)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:261)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:192)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)
   at org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:63)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3972)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4467)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:637)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:563)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:498)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
Caused by: javax.naming.CommunicationException: domaincontroller.company.com:389 [Root exception is java.net.UnknownHostException: domaincontroller.company.com]
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:210)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.<init>(LdapClient.java:118)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClientFactory.createPooledConnection(LdapClientFactory.java:46)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.pool.Connections.<init>(Connections.java:97)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.pool.Pool.getPooledConnection(Pool.java:114)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapPoolManager.getLdapClient(LdapPoolManager.java:310)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.getInstance(LdapClient.java:1572)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.connect(LdapCtx.java:2652)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.<init>(LdapCtx.java:293)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getUsingURL(LdapCtxFactory.java:175)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getUsingURLs(LdapCtxFactory.java:193)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getLdapCtxInstance(LdapCtxFactory.java:136)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getInitialContext(LdapCtxFactory.java:66)
   at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:667)
   at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:288)
   at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:223)
   at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:197)
   at javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.<init>(InitialDirContext.java:82)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.buildInitialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:105)
   … 50 more
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: domaincontroller.company.com
   at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
   at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
   at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:525)
   at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:475)
   at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:372)
   at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:186)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.createSocket(Connection.java:352)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:187)
   … 68 more
08:23:03,218  INFO  [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Startup of 'Synchronization' subsystem, ID: [Synchronization, default] complete
08:23:03,296  INFO  [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco JVM - v1.6.0_18-b07; maximum heap size 494.938MB
08:23:03,296  WARN  [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco JVM - WARNING - maximum heap size 494.938MB is less than recommended 512MB
08:23:03,531  INFO  [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco license: Enterprise - v3.3 granted to Trial User limited to 30 days expiring Wed Nov 24 00:00:00 CAT 2010 (27 days remaining)
08:23:03,531  INFO  [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco started (Enterprise): Current version 3.3.1 (96) schema 4013 - Originally installed version 3.3.1 (96) schema 4013
08:23:28,203  INFO  [module.vti.VtiServer] Vti server started successfully on port: 7070
08:24:33,859 User:System INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 417 Web Scripts (+0 failed), 663 URLs
08:24:33,859 User:System INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 2 Package Description Documents (+0 failed) 
08:24:33,859 User:System INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 1 Schema Description Documents (+0 failed) 
08:24:33,859 User:System INFO  [extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] Initialised Repository Web Script Container (in 58964.285ms)
08:24:33,859  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
08:24:33,859  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
08:24:33,968  INFO  [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Starting 'wcm_deployment_receiver' subsystem, ID: [wcm_deployment_receiver, default]
08:24:34,203  INFO  [alfresco.config.JndiPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/alfresco-shared.properties]
08:24:35,031  INFO  [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Startup of 'wcm_deployment_receiver' subsystem, ID: [wcm_deployment_receiver, default] complete
08:25:18,921  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 269 Web Scripts (+0 failed), 277 URLs
08:25:18,921  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 8 Package Description Documents (+0 failed) 
08:25:18,921  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 0 Schema Description Documents (+0 failed) 
08:25:19,218  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] Initialised Spring Surf Container Web Script Container (in 7542.3594ms)
08:25:20,343  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
08:25:21,250  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
08:25:21,515  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
08:25:21,515  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
08:25:21,828  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
08:25:21,828  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
08:25:28,109  INFO  [site.servlet.NTLMAuthenticationFilter] NTLMAuthenticationFilter initialised.‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

thank you your help is much appreciated

[imad77]

Hi ssaravanan

thanks for the response.I tried to configure it using this method

authentication.chain=alfinst:alfrescoNtlm,passthru1assthru,ldap1:ldap-ad

and it is till not working it gave me this error

net.sf.acegisecurity.AuthenticationServiceException: Failed to open passthru auth session

.

passthru change properties file

passthru.authentication.useLocalServer=false
passthru.authentication.servers=DOMAIN\\192.168.1.119
passthru.authentication.defaultAdministratorUserNames=admin

ldap.authentication.java.naming.provider.url=ldap://192.168.1.17:389
ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.principal=0170@dynatechis.co.za
ldap.synchronization.java.naming.security.credentials=nkah02

ntlm.authentication.sso.enabled=true
alfresco.authentication.allowGuestLogin=false
ntlm.authentication.mapUnknownUserToGuest=false
passthru.authentication.authenticateCIFS=true
passthru.authentication.authenticateFTP=false
passthru.authentication.guestAccess=false
‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

CiFS change.properties

filesystem.name=Alfresco

filesystem.domainMappings=Dynatechis.co.za
filesystem.domainMappings.value.DOMAIN.rangeFrom=192.168.1.119
filesystem.domainMappings.value.DOMAIN.rangeTo=192.168.1.190

cifs.enabled=true
cifs.localname=Alftest.Dynatechis.co.za
cifs.domain=Dynatechis.co.za
cifs.hostannounce=true
cifs.urlfile.prefix=http://192.168.1.119:8080/alfresco/

cifs.broadcast=192.168.1.190
cifs.bindto=192.168.1.119
cifs.ipv6=disabled

ftp.enabled=false
ftp.ipv6=disabled
nfs.enabled=false‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

log file

08:23:03,093 User:System INFO  [security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer] Synchronizing users and groups with user registry 'ldap1'
08:23:03,093 User:System INFO  [security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer] Retrieving all groups from user registry 'ldap1'
08:23:03,140 User:System ERROR [security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer] Synchronization aborted due to error
org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationException: 09280000 Unable to connect to LDAP Server; check LDAP configuration
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.buildInitialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:114)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.getDefaultIntialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:85)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.getDefaultIntialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:76)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ldap.LDAPUserRegistry$3.<init>(LDAPUserRegistry.java:658)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ldap.LDAPUserRegistry.getGroups(LDAPUserRegistry.java:655)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.syncWithPlugin(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:579)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.synchronize(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:405)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer$5.doWork(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:1413)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationUtil.runAs(AuthenticationUtil.java:508)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.onBootstrap(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:1407)
   at org.springframework.extensions.surf.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:56)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:97)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:294)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:858)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:419)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory$ApplicationContextState.start(ChildApplicationContextFactory.java:624)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.start(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:458)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:386)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:97)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:78)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:294)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:858)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:419)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:261)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:192)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)
   at org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:63)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3972)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4467)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:637)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:563)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:498)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
Caused by: javax.naming.CommunicationException: domaincontroller.company.com:389 [Root exception is java.net.UnknownHostException: domaincontroller.company.com]
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:210)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.<init>(LdapClient.java:118)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClientFactory.createPooledConnection(LdapClientFactory.java:46)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.pool.Connections.<init>(Connections.java:97)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.pool.Pool.getPooledConnection(Pool.java:114)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapPoolManager.getLdapClient(LdapPoolManager.java:310)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.getInstance(LdapClient.java:1572)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.connect(LdapCtx.java:2652)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.<init>(LdapCtx.java:293)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getUsingURL(LdapCtxFactory.java:175)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getUsingURLs(LdapCtxFactory.java:193)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getLdapCtxInstance(LdapCtxFactory.java:136)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getInitialContext(LdapCtxFactory.java:66)
   at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:667)
   at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:288)
   at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:223)
   at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:197)
   at javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.<init>(InitialDirContext.java:82)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.buildInitialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:105)
   … 50 more
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: domaincontroller.company.com
   at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
   at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
   at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:525)
   at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:475)
   at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:372)
   at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:186)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.createSocket(Connection.java:352)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:187)
   … 68 more
08:23:03,203 User:System WARN  [security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer] Failed initial synchronize with user registries
org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationException: 09280000 Unable to connect to LDAP Server; check LDAP configuration
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.buildInitialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:114)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.getDefaultIntialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:85)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.getDefaultIntialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:76)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ldap.LDAPUserRegistry$3.<init>(LDAPUserRegistry.java:658)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ldap.LDAPUserRegistry.getGroups(LDAPUserRegistry.java:655)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.syncWithPlugin(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:579)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.synchronize(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:405)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer$5.doWork(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:1413)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationUtil.runAs(AuthenticationUtil.java:508)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.sync.ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.onBootstrap(ChainingUserRegistrySynchronizer.java:1407)
   at org.springframework.extensions.surf.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:56)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:97)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:294)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:858)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:419)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory$ApplicationContextState.start(ChildApplicationContextFactory.java:624)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.start(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:458)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.subsystems.AbstractPropertyBackedBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractPropertyBackedBean.java:386)
   at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:97)
   at org.alfresco.repo.management.SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SafeApplicationEventMulticaster.java:78)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:294)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishRefresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:858)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:419)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:261)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:192)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:47)
   at org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:63)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3972)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4467)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:546)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:637)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:563)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:498)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1277)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:321)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:785)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:581)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:289)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:414)
Caused by: javax.naming.CommunicationException: domaincontroller.company.com:389 [Root exception is java.net.UnknownHostException: domaincontroller.company.com]
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:210)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.<init>(LdapClient.java:118)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClientFactory.createPooledConnection(LdapClientFactory.java:46)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.pool.Connections.<init>(Connections.java:97)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.pool.Pool.getPooledConnection(Pool.java:114)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapPoolManager.getLdapClient(LdapPoolManager.java:310)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.getInstance(LdapClient.java:1572)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.connect(LdapCtx.java:2652)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.<init>(LdapCtx.java:293)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getUsingURL(LdapCtxFactory.java:175)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getUsingURLs(LdapCtxFactory.java:193)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getLdapCtxInstance(LdapCtxFactory.java:136)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory.getInitialContext(LdapCtxFactory.java:66)
   at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(NamingManager.java:667)
   at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(InitialContext.java:288)
   at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(InitialContext.java:223)
   at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(InitialContext.java:197)
   at javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.<init>(InitialDirContext.java:82)
   at org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.ldap.LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.buildInitialDirContext(LDAPInitialDirContextFactoryImpl.java:105)
   … 50 more
Caused by: java.net.UnknownHostException: domaincontroller.company.com
   at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
   at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:366)
   at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:525)
   at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:475)
   at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:372)
   at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:186)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.createSocket(Connection.java:352)
   at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:187)
   … 68 more
08:23:03,218  INFO  [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Startup of 'Synchronization' subsystem, ID: [Synchronization, default] complete
08:23:03,296  INFO  [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco JVM - v1.6.0_18-b07; maximum heap size 494.938MB
08:23:03,296  WARN  [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco JVM - WARNING - maximum heap size 494.938MB is less than recommended 512MB
08:23:03,531  INFO  [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco license: Enterprise - v3.3 granted to Trial User limited to 30 days expiring Wed Nov 24 00:00:00 CAT 2010 (27 days remaining)
08:23:03,531  INFO  [service.descriptor.DescriptorService] Alfresco started (Enterprise): Current version 3.3.1 (96) schema 4013 - Originally installed version 3.3.1 (96) schema 4013
08:23:28,203  INFO  [module.vti.VtiServer] Vti server started successfully on port: 7070
08:24:33,859 User:System INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 417 Web Scripts (+0 failed), 663 URLs
08:24:33,859 User:System INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 2 Package Description Documents (+0 failed) 
08:24:33,859 User:System INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 1 Schema Description Documents (+0 failed) 
08:24:33,859 User:System INFO  [extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] Initialised Repository Web Script Container (in 58964.285ms)
08:24:33,859  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
08:24:33,859  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
08:24:33,968  INFO  [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Starting 'wcm_deployment_receiver' subsystem, ID: [wcm_deployment_receiver, default]
08:24:34,203  INFO  [alfresco.config.JndiPropertyPlaceholderConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/alfresco-shared.properties]
08:24:35,031  INFO  [management.subsystems.ChildApplicationContextFactory] Startup of 'wcm_deployment_receiver' subsystem, ID: [wcm_deployment_receiver, default] complete
08:25:18,921  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 269 Web Scripts (+0 failed), 277 URLs
08:25:18,921  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 8 Package Description Documents (+0 failed) 
08:25:18,921  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 0 Schema Description Documents (+0 failed) 
08:25:19,218  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] Initialised Spring Surf Container Web Script Container (in 7542.3594ms)
08:25:20,343  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
08:25:21,250  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
08:25:21,515  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
08:25:21,515  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
08:25:21,828  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.TemplateProcessorRegistry] Registered template processor freemarker for extension ftl
08:25:21,828  INFO  [extensions.webscripts.ScriptProcessorRegistry] Registered script processor javascript for extension js
08:25:28,109  INFO  [site.servlet.NTLMAuthenticationFilter] NTLMAuthenticationFilter initialised.‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

thank you your help is much appreciated

Hi,

You should do 2 things:

vi /opt/alfresco/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/passthru/passthru-authentication-context.properties
passthru.authentication.useLocalServer=false
passthru.authentication.domain=tata
passthru.authentication.servers=tata\\192.168.1.13
passthru.authentication.guestAccess=false
passthru.authentication.defaultAdministratorUserNames=administrator
#Timeout value when opening a session to an authentication server, in milliseconds
passthru.authentication.connectTimeout=5000
#Offline server check interval in seconds
passthru.authentication.offlineCheckInterval=300
passthru.authentication.protocolOrder=NetBIOS,TCPIP
passthru.authentication.authenticateCIFS=true
passthru.authentication.authenticateFTP=true

vi /opt/alfresco-3.3.3/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/ldap-ad/ldap-ad-authentication.properties
and put your changes directly.

You should add this line in this file:
vi /opt/alfresco-3.3.3/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties

authentication.chain=alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm,passthru1assthru,ldap1:ldap-ad

create the following folders tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/Authenication/passthru/passthru1/
and
tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/subsystems/Authenication/ldap-ad/ldap1

and copy the files tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/passthru/*.properties to the above folder.
copy the files tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/ldap-ad/*.properties to the above folder.

I tried it and it works fine.
restart alfresco services

[applening]

Even though it did not completely solve my problem, at least I know I've been looking at the wrong place…

Thanks a lot. This is of great help so far.

Your error log  shows that its getting authenticated against  openldap.domain.com:389 and not 192.168.1.17:389
so check whether you have placed your config file ldap-authentication.properties in the correct classpath…
By default it picks up the file at tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/subsystems/Authentication/ldap/ldap-authentication.properties