While mounting a cifs share, a plethora of cifsXXXX files are been automatically genarated

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Issue

While mounting a cifs share as user's home directory
- user seen a plethora of cifsXXXX auto-genarated files
- this only seems to occur after a bit of use and more specific after the user has been logged in, working for a few hours
- having this directory included in a backup, causing the backup of the windows server to throw errors

[aduser@domain.local@srv~]$ ls -lh
total 1.1M
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 aduser@domain.local domain users@domain.local 256K Mar 17 11:34 cifs2ddb
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 aduser@domain.local domain users@domain.local 128K Mar 19 15:33 cifs5e8
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 aduser@domain.local domain users@doamin.local 256K Mar 19 15:33 cifsff2

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.3 (Maipo), mounting a cifs share coming from an AD domain

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