External FPolicy Server Fails to Access ontap_admin$ Share with NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME over CIFS/SMB
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- Fpolicy
- CIFS/SMB
Issue
- An external FPolicy server intermittently fails to access the hidden privileged share
\\10.x.x.x\ontap_admin$on a specific SVM. - Attempts to connect to the share fail with
NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME.

- ONTAP sktraces show a return code similar to rt=311, which maps to a share-not-found result during privileged-share evaluation.
FPolicyConfig.cc:5160 rt=311 RESULT_ERROR_CIFS_SMB_TREE_CNT_SHARE_NOT_FOUND)- The same privileged user and FPolicy configuration may work correctly on another SVM in the same cluster.
