Cannot create/access directories of a CIFS resource with a length of exactly 13 characters

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

Cannot create/access directories of a CIFS resource with a length of 13 characters (through WAN accelerator) using SMB 3, 2.1, 2.0
Longer or shorter length directory names have no problems.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
SMB 3.0, 2.1, 2.0

WAN accelerator Riverbed SteelHead CX5070H (ver. 9.7.0a)
WAN accelerator Riverbed SteelHead CX770H (ver. 9.7.0a)
WAN accelerator Riverbed SteelHead CX3070L (ver. 9.7.0a)

NOTE: WAN accelerator acts as an inverted proxy.

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