Windows 7 / CIFS access

[bengrah]

Hi all

We've been having some trouble accessing CIFS from a Windows 7 client (we're running Alfresco on Windows Server 2008), so far we've been testing with XP clients and have no issue, but on a 7 client we're unable to get a connection. Just continually prompted for credentials.

Does there have to be any specific setting in place to get CIFS to work?

Thanks,
Ben.

[mrogers]

If using windows authentication you need to make Windows7 use NLTMv1.    It will try to use NTLMV2 out of the box.

[bengrah]

Hi mrrogers,

We actually did manage some success with this, applied a registry key "LmCompatibilityLevel" DWORD = 1 (hex) in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa and we're now able to map a drive. I've read that NTLMv2 can't be used because of it's tendancy to try and block "man in the middle" style attacks, which is how it perceives Alfresco CIFS?