topic Preferred DC Shows None in ONTAP Hardware

Preferred DC Shows None

MBix — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:08:52 GMT

Hello All!

I'm trying to set my preferred Domain Controller list, as we've had a lot of problems with one and we have 3 in a current location.

I run my:

cifs prefdc add <DomainController> <ip address>

cifs resetdc

And still when I run a cifs domaininfo

It shows "None" under preferred list.

I feel like this is a simple process, but I must be missing something.

Thanks!

YIshikawa — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 09:26:07 GMT

these are really DCs of domain the filler is belonging to? "cifs domaininfo" only shows discovered DCs of current domain.

You can review preferred list by "cifs prefdc print"

MBix — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 15:53:39 GMT

the command cifs prefdc print show the preferred DC's I set, but they aren't being used after I run a cifs resetdc