After a minute or so a backup fails with: Error Message: 2712" - can't create the directory cifs. All of the needed ports are opened, there is no firewall blocking connectivity, and you can ping by FQDN and IP.
This occurs due to a lmhost file entry. When there is an entry for 127.0.0.1 pointing to both the machine name and IP please be sure the order of the list is so that the IP entry is first in the list.
Verify that the lmhost file entries are In such an order that the IP address entry will be the first priority instead of the machine name.
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