topic not any access to CIFS shares at boot from Windows 7 for a few minutes in Network and Storage Protocols

not any access to CIFS shares at boot from Windows 7 for a few minutes

Edouard_mick — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 20:18:27 GMT

Hi,

I have a problem with my CIFS shares, when my windows 7 PC boot on domain user , for some minute the CIFS share not just be open but after a few minutes it becomes available ..

Occasionally sharing disappears so unexplaine !

Have you an idea of the problem ??

Thank you for your help
Have a good day

Re: not any access to CIFS shares at boot from Windows 7 for a few minutes

Sahana — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 05:41:59 GMT

Hi,

Check for bug Bug 530555: The CIFS shares in pre-Data ONTAP 8.1 release with backslash "\" in the share path are not accessible from SMB2 clients in Data ONTAP 8.1.

Re: not any access to CIFS shares at boot from Windows 7 for a few minutes

Edouard_mick — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 06:24:08 GMT

Hi,

Sorry, but I have no access to the link you gave me .. "Unauthorized Access"

You can copy and paste the contents of the link?

Thank you for your help

Re: not any access to CIFS shares at boot from Windows 7 for a few minutes

Sahana — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 06:29:29 GMT

Description
Formatted

 In pre-Data ONTAP 8.1 releases, users are allowed to create a CIFS share with a backslash "\" in the share path. 
 In  Data ONTAP 8.1, the system validates paths during both share creation and processing the SMB2 requests. 
 Data ONTAP 8.1 allows only a forward slash "/" in the share path.
 If you upgrade to Data ONTAP 8.1 from an earlier release, all the  CIFS shares with "\" in the share path
 are not accessible from SMB2 clients (Vista/Win7).

Workaround
Formatted

 To make pre-Data ONTAP 8.1 CIFS shares accessible in Data ONTAP 8.1 from SMB2 clients, 
 you need to manually modify the CIFS share path and replace the "\" with "/" .

Data ONTAP 8.1RC3 (First Fixed) - Fixed
Data ONTAP 8.1.4P1 (GA) - Fixed
Data ONTAP 8.2.4 (GA) - Fixed
Data ONTAP 8.3.2 (GA) - Fixed