PowerStore: Failed to modify the authentication from simple to Kerberos through GUI (error 0xE08010050005)

Summary: Modifying NAS server LDAP authentication from simple to Kerberos may fail with error 0xE08010050005 when SMB Server is not configured.

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Symptoms

Scenario steps:
1. Created a NAS Servers with only NFS enabled.
2. Configured LDAP with simple authentication on the above-created NFS server.
2. Created standalone Kerberos on the NFS server.
3. Tried to modify the authentication from simple to Kerberos, modification failed with an error message: Modify of file LDAP failed due to [ A domain joined SMB server is needed to complete this operation]
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Cause

When SMB Server details are not configured and the user tries to modify LDAP from simple to Kerberos the update will fail due software issue in this transition.

Resolution

Create the SMB Server via REST API. 
curl -X POST "http://[ClusterIP]:3085/api/types/smbServer/instances" "Content-Type: application/json" -d "

{ \"nasServer\": \"string\", \"isStandalone\": true, \"computerName\": \"string\", \"domain\": \"string\", \"netbiosName\": \"string\", \"workgroup\": \"string\", \"description\": \"string\", \"localAdminPassword\": \"string\"}

Affected Products

PowerStore
Article Properties
Article Number: 000202157
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 10 Aug 2022
Version:  1
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