Applies to ONTAP 9 Data ONTAP 8 Answer This functionality is supported in ONTAP 9 and above. In 8.3.2 and below, a CIFS server must be joined to a domain. It's not possible to perform a CIFS cre... Applies to ONTAP 9 Data ONTAP 8 Answer This functionality is supported in ONTAP 9 and above. In 8.3.2 and below, a CIFS server must be joined to a domain. It's not possible to perform a CIFS create for a workgroup. Additional Information Set up an SMB server in a workgroup overview (netapp.com)
Can not create cifs server in workgroup mode by OSM with following errors: Job "172" failed due to the following reason: Failed to create the Active Directory machine account "CIFS_WORKGROUP". Reason:...Can not create cifs server in workgroup mode by OSM with following errors: Job "172" failed due to the following reason: Failed to create the Active Directory machine account "CIFS_WORKGROUP". Reason: SecD Error: no server available Details: Error: Machine account creation procedure failed [ 3 ms] Trying to create machine account 'CIFS_WORKGROUP' in 'WORKGROUP' for SVM 'svm2' [ 416] No servers found in DNS lookup for _ldap._tcp.WORKGROUP.
