Ldap/CIFS : 1.3 upgrade to 1.4.1

[pparkinson]

Hi All~

Need Help!

Current Environment:
RH ES 3
Jboss 4.04
Portal2.2,
Alf 1.3.0 EE

We've got ldap sync and CIFS enabled and working successfully in a production capacity.

We're attempting to upgrade to Alf 1.4.1.  Using the same config files we've modified the ldap-authentication-context.xml to fix the defaultHomeFolder error and logging to fixing the startup hanging.  Otherwise nothing else has been modified.

Alfresco appears to start sucessfully, I can login as admin/admin and see my spaces and see my ldap groups and users.  But when I login as an existing user I get the following error:

javax.faces.FacesException: Error calling action method of component with id loginForm:submit
caused by:
javax.faces.el.EvaluationException: Exception while invoking expression #{LoginBean.login}
caused by:
java.lang.NullPointerException

Also, we're guessing this may also be connected with our CIFS configuration since CIFS is no longer working either.  Please adivise!

[omegerard]

Hi

Same problem here, except that CIFS is working fine! It's only the web interface that is displaying the same error message as yours.

Regards

Ludo

[pparkinson]

So found two things that I could do to correct my error.

1.) 1.4.1 has a new home folder provider which creates a home folder.  The home folder wasn't created with any inherited permissions.  Once I added that the error went away.

2.) thanks to Ludo who clarified that the homefolder provider is default and we can set it back to company provider like it was in 1.3.  Thanks Ludo I totally missed that in the wiki.

My CIFS problem still remains but I created a different thread for that.