While mounting a CIFS share, a plethora of cifsXXXX files are automatically generated
Issue
While mounting a CIFS share as user's home directory
- user saw a plethora of cifsXXXX auto-generated 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 from an AD domain
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