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Join Domain failure due to incorrect format of domain username

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • CIFS

Issue

  • Fails to  Join AD domain with invalid credentials when to create a new CIFS server.
Error: Machine account creation procedure failed
 [  7355] Loaded the preliminary configuration.
**[  7759] FAILURE: Could not authenticate as
**         'Demo/user1@DEMO.COM': Unknown user
**         (KRB5KDC_ERR_C_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN)

Error: command failed: Failed to create the Active Directory machine account "CIFSSERVER1". Reason: Kerberos Error: Invalid credentials were given.
  • The incorrect format of username is provided as "domain\username".

 

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