CIFS authentication fails due to the account is disabled

Applies to

• Clustered Data ONTAP 8
• ONTAP 9

Issue

CIFS authentication fails with the error "Account is disabled!" in EMS log.

Example:

  [  7 ms] Login attempt by domain user 'Local\Administrator' using NTLMv2 style security

  [    10] Successfully connected to ip 10.2.5.10, port 445 using TCP

  [    84] Successfully connected to ip 10.2.5.10, port 88 using TCP

  [   105] Successfully authenticated with DC domain

  [   128] Retrying with a new secure channel key

  [  2383] Authentication failed with DC server. Not retriable. (Status: 0xc0000064)

  [  2383] Login attempt by local user 'Local\Administrator' using NTLMv2 style security

  [  2431] Account is Disabled!

**[  2431] FAILURE: CIFS authentication failed