While enabling CIFS, you are asked if you want to join a domain. This can get a bit complicated depending on whether you have privileges to add computers to the domain, and specifically which OU you have rights to add a computer to. Unfortunately, ONTAP lists OU's in a very not-useful way, so if you arent' able to get the OU=Contoso,OU=com,etc syntax right you'll find yourself frustrated. Luckily, there's a backdoor way to accomplish this.
"By creating a computer account in Active Directory before the computer joins the domain, you can determine exactly where in the directory the computer account will be placed."*1
So go ahead and create the account in ADUC, and then join the domain using the CIFS setup technique like you normally would. Problem solved!
*1 http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780789736178/samplechapter/0789736179_CH02.pdf
"By creating a computer account in Active Directory before the computer joins the domain, you can determine exactly where in the directory the computer account will be placed."*1
So go ahead and create the account in ADUC, and then join the domain using the CIFS setup technique like you normally would. Problem solved!
*1 http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/9780789736178/samplechapter/0789736179_CH02.pdf
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