Office 2003 sp3 alfresco plugin problems on windows xp sp3

[milesif]

I installed a vmware test machine with windows xp 2003 sp3 and office 2003 sp3. My labs 3 stable version alfresco server uses Alfresco authentication chained with kerberos + AD SSO and it works like a charm. From my xp machine I can access the CIFS shares and the web client without further authentication (both with IE7 and FF).

I then installed the alfresco addin for office. I tried both version alfresco-labs-office2003-addins-3Stable and alfresco-labs-office2003-addins-3.2_Preview2_dev versions, but I have the following problems with both:
1. I have to install the plugin for each user accessing my xp client, otherwise that user cannot see the alfresco toolbar.
2. When I open a Word document and try to configure the Web client url I am asked for a login and a password (I think this should not happen).I tried both the credentials of an AD user and those of an Alfresco user without success (I get an Alfresco Office Add-In dialog box saying: "Couldn't authenticate with Alfresco server"). It seems that, because I cannot authenticate succesfully, I cannot access the functionalities of the alfresco toolbar (I keep seeing a blank space). Note that if I use only Alfresco authentication (no chaining with kerberos +AD), authentication works fine and I can use the toolbar, while if I use only kerberos+AD authentication I have the same problem.

Another problem, not related to the Office plugin, arise when I map to a CIFS share a space that is not the alfresco root space. I have the following spaces Alfresco/User Homes/MyUser/MyUserFolder. If I map the Alfresco space to Z:\, I have no problems. If I map the Alfresco/UserHomes or Alfresco/User Homes/MyUser spaces to Z:\, if I try to see the details of a file belonging to a subspace, dropping it on the corresponding icon, I get the message "error: No parameters for action". If I map the Alfresco/User Homes/MyUser/MyUserFolder space to Z:\, if I try to see the details of a file belonging to a subspace, dropping it on the corresponding icon, I get the message "error: Not a valid alfresco CIFS folder". It seems I cannot map anything apart from the root folder, if I want to use desktop actions.

I saw problem number 1 and 2 in previous posts, related to older version of alfresco and the plugin, but I could not get a working solution out af them. Please help me, if you have any idea about what is going on.

Thanks in advance, ciao Francesco

[milesif]

Hi everibody,

here some more informarion.
As to previous post point 1. note that I tried to install the plugin both as domain administrator and local administrator and I checked the "all users" option.
As to point 2. I discovered that it is the Webdav Kerberos filter that causes the problem. When I save the plugin urls, it receives an authentication request that is processed by BaseKerberosAuthenticationFilter.doFilter that restarts the login challenge, because there is no kerberos ticket in the request. To me it looks like a misconfiguration problem of my office environment or a bug.

Any idea?