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CIFS shares inaccessible SECD error "Path was incompletely processed"

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Applies to

ONTAP 9.8

Issue

  • Using Windows Explorer users are able to browse the root of the cifs server \\cifs_server\ and see all the shares.
    • Clicking on a share results in a spinning wheel and eventually a not accessible error.
  • Error seen in EMS 
    Nblade.cifsShrConnectFailed: Vserver name: ACADIA, Vserver ID: 5, error description: Path was incompletely processed 
otherthan because of encountering a symbolic link, junction, data set root, or export point, error code: 257

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