CIFS on windows 7

You face problem like Your cifs working fine with Windows XP machines but not properly in Windows 7 .

Note: After reading many blogs having registry edits and other configuration, I found this way is somewhat fine to me. So posting it but could not explain this reason for this. May be CIFS binding name is mapped like this way.

Here are the few steps you can try to enable CIFS on windows 7 machines.

1. Get your computer name
     for windows machine you can open command prompt and type "set" command.
     find computer name.

      e.g  COMPUTERNAME = XYZMACHINE

2. APPEND CIFS PARAM to Computer Name
     In our case letter "A" we are appending to this name
     e.g.   XYZMACHINEA

3. Make entry in hosts file
      open hosts file from C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\
      use some unused IP like below entry :
      13.13.13.13 XYZMACHINEA

4. Restart and Map alfresco with CIFS
     e.g.  \\XYZMACHINEA\Alfresco




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Ghanshyam Rathod
CIGNEX Datamatics Pvt Ltd.
India