Problem with accessing CFIS share from windows

[aaroe]

Hi there,

We're currently in the process of trying out Alfresco at my workplace to replace the small SharePoint we have going now which no one uses anyways.
I'm in the process of getting some basic configuration done to make it possible to let a few users lose on the thing and let them have their way with it and test it out. I'm managed to get an instance of AlfrescoLabs3 running on one of our Debian test servers and made check user credentials up against our ActiveDirectory. I'm currently trying to get the network share to work properly but it's not going as I'd like it to.

I had a look at the wiki and didn't really get much from that, so I tried to take what I could get and make the best use of it.

I copied the config block regarding CIFS from file-servers.xml and copied it into file-servers-custom.xml and changed the authentication block to:

<authenticator type="passthru">
    <Server>[b]DNS NAME OF OUR DOMAINCONTROLLER[/b]</Server>
</authenticator>
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I've assumed that the server told to link to on the wiki is our domain controller holding our ActiveDirectory with users. I then assumed that users should be able to log on to the share with the same AD credentials they use to log on to Alfresco with.

When trying to map the drive from one of our windows clients with \\10.0.1.20\alfresco (where 10.0.1.20 ofcourse is the ip of the server running Alfresco) I get prompted for username and logon but fail to login with my username and password. And yes, I've also tried with DOMAIN\username and so on. Nothing seems to work. I'd hoped that there would be some kind of debug information to follow in the /tomcat/logs/ dir but no errors seems to be triggered which leaves me a bit hopeless 😕

…and this is where you guys come into the picture. I'm hoping that someone out there might be able to help me out of this pinch. Any help is very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Christian Rasmussen

[aususer]

Oh yea… and don't bother trying Labd 3d… (on nightly builds today)…
it doesn't do any better.. will update the fault ticket.

[meansartin14]

I too am suffering from the issue described in this thread.

I have configured Alfresco Community Labs 3C to authenticate against a remote Active Directory server. This allows configured Active Directory users to use the Alfresco Web Interface via single sign-on on their client Windows XP PCs (which use the same Active Directory server for Windows login) without issue. They can not, however, use the Map Network Drive… feature to add the Alfresco CIFS server as a network drive.

The errors I see in alfresco.log are different than what has been described here though. Here's an example of what I see in alfresco.log when I attempt to Map Network Drive… to \\myserver\alfresco:

    DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] NT Session setup NTLMSSP, MID=8, UID=0, PID=65279
    DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Kerberos AP-REQ - [AP-REQ:APOptions=MutualAuth ,Ticket=Len=985,Authenticator=EncType=23,Kvno=-1,Len=180]
    DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Kerberos mutual auth required, parsing AP-REQ
    ERROR [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Kerberos logon error
    ERROR [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] java.lang.NullPointerException
    DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] NT Session setup NTLMSSP, MID=16, UID=0, PID=65279
    DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Kerberos AP-REQ - [AP-REQ:APOptions=MutualAuth ,Ticket=Len=1020,Authenticator=EncType=23,Kvno=-1,Len=175]
    DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Kerberos mutual auth required, parsing AP-REQ
    ERROR [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Kerberos logon error
    ERROR [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] java.lang.NullPointerException
    DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] NT Session setup NTLMSSP, MID=8, UID=0, PID=65279
    DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Kerberos AP-REQ - [AP-REQ:APOptions=MutualAuth ,Ticket=Len=985,Authenticator=EncType=23,Kvno=-1,Len=180]
    DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Kerberos mutual auth required, parsing AP-REQ
    ERROR [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Kerberos logon error
    ERROR [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] java.lang.NullPointerException
    DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] NT Session setup NTLMSSP, MID=16, UID=0, PID=65279
    DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] User  logged on  (type Normal)
    DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] NT Session setup NTLMSSP, MID=24, UID=0, PID=65279
    DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Logged on using NTLMSSP/NTLMv2
    DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] User <username> logged on  (type Normal)
    DEBUG [org.alfresco.smb.protocol.auth] Allocated UID=0 for VC=[0:0,[<username>:null,Windows XP 3790 Service Pack 2,,<ip address>],Tree=0,Searches=0]
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I started my own thread about the issue (here: http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=15888) not knowing that this thread existed.

Has anyone successfully configured Alfresco Labs 3c to allow CIFS server network drive mappings on Windows XP PCs while authenticating against an external Active Directory server?

[meansartin14]

I have started a thread that I hope to eventually turn into a AlfrescoWiki page for how to configure Active Directory authentication for both CIFS and the Web Interface in Alfresco Labs 3c.

Please see my thread:
[ERROR]Alfresco Engineers: CIFS auth does not work. Sugg?

Please come join in the discussion, or at least subscribe to the thread. I want to try to get everyone having these types of issues into the thread so that we can get a large collection of experiences and configurations.

We WILL find the answer for how to enable Active Directory authentication with CIFS in Alfresco!!

[luxoliver]

Hi,

I want to access Alfresco with CFIS but i already have an error 1326 (user or password incorect).
I have 1 alfresco on my computer and an other one on a VM.
On my computer i use the port 8585 and on my VM i use 8080.
I can't access with CFIS the alfresco who is on my computer. But when i try to access on my VM that's work's.
Maybe it's because of the port ? But i can't change the port on my computer because i have an other tomvat which use the port 8080.
If somebody have any idea to help me, you are really welcome.
Thank's