CIFS Shares are unavailable due to KRB5_CONFIG_BADFORMAT because DC or DNS is unresponsive
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- CIFS/SMB
- Kerberos
- DC discovery
Issue
- CIFS client hangs when navigating to share via
\\name
- CIFS client can successfully navigate to share via
\\ip
- EMS
[?] Thu Aug 21 08:27:24 +0000 [node-01: secd: secd.cifsAuth.problem:error]: vserver (svm1) General CIFS authentication problem. Error: User authentication procedure failed CIFS SMB2 Share mapping - Client Ip = x.x.x.x.x [ 9 ms] Error acquiring service credential for Vserver identifier (8). Improper format of Kerberos configuration file (KRB5_CONFIG_BADFORMAT). **[ 11] FAILURE: CIFS authentication failed
- SECD
Failure Summary:
Error: User authentication procedure failed
CIFS SMB2 Share mapping - Client Ip = x.x.x.x
[ 9 ms] Error acquiring service credential for Vserver identifier (8). Improper format of Kerberos configuration file (KRB5_CONFIG_BADFORMAT).
**[ 11] FAILURE: CIFS authentication failed