topic Re: Unable to create a cifs share in ONTAP Discussions

Unable to create a cifs share

prawin — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:50:58 GMT

Unable to create a cifs share. Getting the below error when I execute this command,

"vserver cifs create -vserver vs1 -cifs-server cifs1 -domain <domain-name>"

Error: Machine account creation procedure failed
[ 0 ms] Trying to create machine account 'CIFS1' in 'ADFSENV.COM'
for Vserver 'vs1'
[ 99] No servers found in DNS lookup for _ldap._tcp.ADFSENV.COM.
[ 99] No servers available for MS_LDAP_AD, vserver: 6, domain:
ADFSENV.COM.
[ 99] Cannot find any domain controllers; verify the domain
name and the node's DNS configuration
**[ 99] FAILURE: Unable to connect to any (0) domain controllers.
[ 178] No servers found in DNS lookup for
_ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.ADFSENV.COM.
[ 193] No servers found in DNS lookup for _ldap._tcp.ADFSENV.COM.
[ 201] No servers found in DNS lookup for
_kerberos._tcp.ADFSENV.COM.
[ 201] No servers available for MS_LDAP_AD, vserver: 6, domain:
ADFSENV.COM.

Error: command failed: Failed to create the Active Directory machine account
"CIFS1". Reason: SecD Error: no server available.

Re: Unable to create a cifs share

SpindleNinja — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:27:00 GMT

Does vserver vs1 have a lif configured and DNS configured?

Re: Unable to create a cifs share

prawin — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:09:17 GMT

Yes. But I have one doubt. Does my Data LIF IP address for vs1 should be different from my node management IP address?

Re: Unable to create a cifs share

SpindleNinja — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 12:36:53 GMT

Yes. they have to be separate. node and cluster mgmt are totally separate from anything else in ONTAP (cdot / cluster mode)

also the CIFS lif cannot be on e0M like the node mgmt / cluster mgmt lif can be.

Re: Unable to create a cifs share

Stiegelis — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 11:22:32 GMT

you indeed need to create a separate data lif for a data vserver, node and cluster management lifs can't be used for this. Use dedicated network ports, port groups and broadcast domains for a vserver and it's data lifs.