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Intermittent CIFS share access issue due to DFS namespace misconfiguration

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Applies to

  • Ontap 9
  • CIFS
  • Distributed File System (DFS)

Issue

  • Application error accessing ONTAP CIFS share:
    • Cannot find path'\\domain.com\dfs\path\to\share"
    • Or An unexpected network error occurred
  • ONTAP CIFS share is a DFS target, accessed from the DFS namespace.

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