Problem Connecting With CIFS

[klwalker]

I am running Alfresco v2.1 on JBoss, on a Windows Vista pc, and was initially having trouble configuring the CIFS server to connect to the repository, but have figured a way around it and am wondering if it is a bug.  The problem was because my computer name was exactly 15 chars long, and it tries to automatically append "_A" for the CIFS server name, but I was receiving a message during JBoss startup that the CIFS name can only be 15 chars long so was truncated to exactly the same thing as my computer name.  Then, I wasn't able to map a drive to it.  So as a test, I shortened my computer name and was then able to get it working.  Is there a way for me to get this working with my original computer name?

[dinger]

I think this might be a limitation of CIFS. Perhaps the computer name is only allowed to be 15 characters long.

Cheers

Rob

[invantix]

The CIFS share can have any name you choose, it does not need to be computername_a.  You can edit the file /tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/fileservers-custom.xml file and name the share whatever you want.  In this case I called it "alfserver".  So now in windows I can map a drive to \\alfserver\alfresco

   <config evaluator="string-compare" condition="CIFS Server">
      <serverEnable enabled="true" />
      <host name="alfserver" domain="MyDomain" />
      <comment>Alfresco CIFS Server</comment>
      <!– Set to the broadcast mask for the subnet –>
      <broadcast>255.255.255.0</broadcast>
      <sessionDebug flags="NetBIOS,State,Notify,Tree,Negotiate,Socket,Errors" />
   </config>
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Regards