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CONTAP-54647: CIFS authentication fails until manual rediscovery

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Issue

  • CIFS Vserver not accessible due to inability to perform Kerberos authentication
  • New CIFS sessions will fail
  • EMS:

    • Mon Nov 09 08:29:37 CET [clus1-02: secd: secd.cifsAuth.problem:error]: vserver (VS1) General CIFS authentication problem. Error: User authentication procedure failed CIFS SMB2 Share mapping - Client Ip = 10.10.10.11 **[ 2] FAILURE: CIFS authentication failed

  • SECD:

    • ERR : RESULT_ERROR_SECLIB_GSSAPI_NO_SERVER_CREDS:7129 in 
      acceptContext() at src/GssapiCtx.cpp:182
      ERR : acceptContext: GSSAPI Error: (d0000)
      ERR : RESULT_ERROR_SECLIB_GSSAPI_NO_SERVER_CREDS:7129 in 
      acceptContext() at src/SpnegoCtx.cpp:248
      ERR : RESULT_ERROR_SECLIB_GSSAPI_NO_SERVER_CREDS:7129 in 
      secd_rpc_auth_extended_1_svc() at 
      src/authentication/secd_rpc_auth.cpp:1221
      ERR : CIFS authentication failed
      { in secd_rpc_auth_extended_1_svc() at src/authentication/secd_rpc_auth.cpp:1249 }
      debug: SecD RPC Server sending reply to RPC 151: secd_rpc_auth_extended
      { in secdSendRpcResponse() at src/server/secd_rpc_server.cpp:2070 }
      ERR : RESULT_ERROR_SECLIB_GSSAPI_NO_SERVER_CREDS:7129 in 
      getFailureCode() at src/utils/secd_thread_task_journal.cpp:348
      [kern_secd:info:12745] | [000.006.626] ERR : RESULT_ERROR_KERBEROS_UNKNOWN_ERROR:7556 in getKrbInitCreds() at src/GssapiCtx.cpp:487
      [kern_secd:info:12745] | [000.006.644] ERR : getKrbInitCreds: Kerberos Error: (Improper format of Kerberos configuration file (KRB5_CONFIG_BADFORMAT))
      [kern_secd:info:12745] | [000.006.678] info : Improper format of Kerberos configuration file (KRB5_CONFIG_BADFORMAT)


 
 

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