Comments on: Alfresco and CIFS troubleshooting on Ubuntu

By: Tomas

Tomas — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:12:03 +0000

You NEED samba for NetBIOS lookup.

If you dont install samba, other windows machines on the lan must access with the server ip,

\\192.168.1.100\alfresco

I you install samba the windows machines on the lan can access like this

\\myubuntuserver\alfresco

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:47:12 +0000

Hi, beautiful article!
Sorry for my english, but I’m italian..
I’m trying to access Alfresco to FTP, but it doesn’t work!
Have you any solution?

Thank’you very much.

By: Helene Klungvik

Helene Klungvik — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:51:23 +0000

For some reason things didn’t work until I installed samba, but I don’t know why. I might be wrong, and I would like nothing better because I can’t see a reason why samba has to be installed too

By: Nicolas Raoul

Nicolas Raoul — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:08:48 +0000

You don’t need Samba, so the first line is unnecessary. Having samba will probably only bring a conflict, which can be avoided by stopping samba:
sudo /etc/init.d/samba stop

And to stop Samba from starting every time you reboot, remove all files that have “samba” in their names in the /etc/rc*.d directories.

Thanks for the iptables trick!

By: haridasi

haridasi — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:55:42 +0000

The cifs server included in Alfresco doesn’t listen to the smb ports, so that’s why you need to set it up. And then you need to redirect incoming “calls” to the ports afresco’s cifs listen to (therefore adding port forwarding to iptable).

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:53:54 +0000

I should probably also mention that I am using Alfresco Community Edition 3.2

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:51:17 +0000

Thanks for a great article!

I am having some trouble getting this to work.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but why do you need to install samba for this? Will that not “clash” with the CIFS server included in Alfresco?

By: Larry Luke

Larry Luke — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:09:42 +0000

I’ve been having problems subscribing to this feed. It lets me subscribe and it loads in the rss reader program I use (which is netnewswire for mac) but it’s not showing new posts. A few duplicates too. Am I using the wrong url perhaps?

By: Per Buer

Per Buer — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:01:01 +0000

“echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward” enables forwarding (routing) of packets. Unless your system is a router this is probably not something you want – it can be exploited in a number of ways.

By: haridasi

haridasi — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:32:40 +0000

Even better

By: Nicolai

Nicolai — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:26:52 +0000

netstat -p saves you the lsof command

Nicolai