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CIFS creation fails with LDAP error: a constraint violation occurred

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Applies to

  • Clustered Data ONTAP
  • ONTAP 9

Issue

  • CIFS creation fails with the following error:

Error: command failed: Failed to create the Active Directory machine account <account>. Reason: LDAP Error: A constraint violation occurred.

 

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