Applies to ONTAP 9 and later Windows Server 2008 CIFS SMB encryption enabled Issue Windows Server 2008 client unable to access a share and getting access denied error. Windows Server 2016 clients able...Applies to ONTAP 9 and later Windows Server 2008 CIFS SMB encryption enabled Issue Windows Server 2008 client unable to access a share and getting access denied error. Windows Server 2016 clients able to access the same share using same credentials. Below error seen in ems logs: Tue Nov 05 13:12:31 +0530 [node1: kernel: Nblade.cifsEncShrAccessDenied:error]: Client (IP: 192.168.xx.xx, Vserver: 3) could not connect to CIFS share "share1" because SMB encryption is required.