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joining vfiler to illegal domain name

christopher — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:25:27 GMT

Hi, we have a FAS2050 I have setup a vfiler to 1 of our domains and thats working fine! however one of the other domain contains a _ in the name. This is stopping me joining the vfiler to the domain. How can I get around it?

thanks

Chris

Re: joining vfiler to illegal domain name

fenton — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:42:36 GMT

Hi Chris,

How are you setting up the vfiler - Provisioning Manager, FilerView or CLI ?

Cheers

Rich

Re: joining vfiler to illegal domain name

christopher — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:33:44 GMT

Hi, I have tried doing it via filerview and ssh session.

Chris

Re: joining vfiler to illegal domain name

fenton — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:11:31 GMT

Chris - what version of ONTAP are you running - I believe in 7.3.1 we restricted naming to [A-Za-z0-9.].* (ie, alphanumeric and fullstop not allowing hypens and underscores)

The inference is this should work as you expect it to 7.2.5 but it changed in 7.3 (there is a bug outstanding to track this - 349709)

I ran across this just yesterday when trying to create a vfiler in Provisioning Manager to test the migration capability (I was using a hyphen in that particular instance)

Re: joining vfiler to illegal domain name

christopher — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:36:58 GMT

Is there a work around for this problem, I managed to create the vfiler on a different domain last time.. but I will need to get this working this time round!

ontap version 7.3.2

cheers

Chris

Re: joining vfiler to illegal domain name

fenton — Thu, 13 May 2010 20:46:18 GMT

Hey Chris,

It should be fixed in 7.3.3.

http://now.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=349709

Cheers

Rich