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Implicit Windows to UNIX name mapping fails when Windows user has upper case characters

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Applies to

ONTAP 9

Issue

Windows to UNIX name mapping fails:

::*> diag secd authentication show-creds -node Filer-01 -vserver testsvm -win-name TestUser

Vserver: testsvm (internal ID: 11)

Error: Get user credentials procedure failed
  [    12] Retrieved CIFS credentials via S4U2Self for full Windows
           user name 'TestUser@DOMAIN.LOCAL'
  [    12] Trying to map 'DOMAIN\TestUser' to UNIX user
           'testuser' using implicit mapping
  [    13] Entry for user-name: testuser not found in the current
           source: FILES. Ignoring and trying next available source
  [    14] Using a cached connection to ldap.domain.local
**[    15] FAILURE: User 'testuser' not found in UNIX authorization
**         source LDAP.
  [    15] Entry for user-name: testuser not found in the current
           source: LDAP. Entry for user-name: testuser not found in
           any of the available sources
  [    16] Unable to map 'DOMAIN\TestUser'. No default UNIX user
           defined.
  [    16] Name mapping for Windows user 'DOMAIN\TestUser' failed.
           No mapping found

Error: command failed: Failed to get user credentials. Reason: "SecD Error: Name mapping does not exist".

Note: The Windows username was converted into a UNIX name in all lower case.

 

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