Unable to connect to CIFS from remote machine

[asdavey]

Hi,

Problem in brief:

I've installed the Tomcat version of PR6 on a machine with Windows XP SP2. I can use the webclient from other machines with no hassles, but only the local machine is able to connect to the CIFS share \\SERVER_H\Alfresco.

More details

Executing nbtstat -n on the local machine lists both the SERVER and SERVER_H records (both type 0x00 and 0x20).

Executing net view \\SERVER_H from the local machine lists the Alfresco share.

The local machine is a member of a Windows 2003 domain.

When I execute net view \\SERVER_H from a remote Win XP SP2 machine, I get the error "System Error 52". This error is complaining about a duplicate name being on the network.

When I execute net use Z: \\SERVER_H\Alfresco from a remote Win XP SP2 machine, I get the error "System Error 53". This error is "network path not found".

I can ping the Alfresco box from a remote machine using the SERVER_H name, so it appears it can resolve the netbios name to an IP.

Other than that I'm stumped. I was successful once in connecting a remote machine to the Alfresco box (I could copy files and everything) - but I haven't been able to reproduce the feat since.

Is there a way that I can debug / look at a log file to work out what's going on? Should I have NETBIOS enabled on the remote machines?

Kindof stumped at the moment.

[gary_spencer]

Hi,

In order to access the CIFS server with the default setup you would need NetBIOS enabled on the remote machines.

On a remote machine can you try 'nbtstat -a SERVER' and 'nbtstat -a SERVER_H', they should both list the remote NetBIOS name table.

Gary

[leon]

hi,
   I have succeessfully set up the cifs on win2003, I can see the folder from 2003 server (sp1),and also can access them from windows 2000(sp4), which doesn't  ask for username/password.
but when I use it on Win XP(sp2),it requires me to enter username and password ,for this ,I have tried the username/password of the windows system ,and the alfresco system, but all failed.