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cifs setup terminates suddenly without any message.

renton — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:48:24 GMT

Hi All,

I have been running cifs setup in a vFiler on a 6280 running 8.2.3P2 7-mode and it terminates unexpectedly and without message after selecting either option for "Multiprotocol" or "NTFS-only" as show below:

filer> vfiler run vfilername cifs setup

...

(1) Multiprotocol filer
(2) NTFS-only filer

Selection (1-2)? [1]: 1
        CIFS requires local /etc/passwd and /etc/group files and default files
        will be created. The default passwd file contains entries for 'root',
        'pcuser', and 'nobody'.

filer>

I manually created /etc/passwd and /etc/group files and then retried the cifs setup. I've never had to do that before. Does anyone know why?

Cheers, Renton.

Re: cifs setup terminates suddenly without any message.

RPHELANIN — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:19:56 GMT

can you change the root password? if so change it and rerun cifs setup

Re: cifs setup terminates suddenly without any message.

hariprak — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 08:16:27 GMT

Hi,

This is because CIFS is not configured while configuring vfiler and configured later, then /etc/passwd is not created on the root of the vfiler volume.
You can either setup CIFS while creating vfiler or need to manually create /etc/passwd in root volume of the vfiler

Thanks