Not Able To Map Samba Shares Via IP Address

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

You are able to connect to your samba shares via hostname/FQDN, but you are not able to connect to connect to a samba shares via IP address. You keep getting prompted for your user credentials.

In /var/log/samba/*.log you see the following error:

[2016/04/24 13:45:30.001820, 10, pid=20243, effective(0, 0), real(0, 0), class=auth] ../source3/auth/auth_winbind.c:105(check_winbind_security) check_winbind_security: wbcAuthenticateUserEx failed: WBC_ERR_WINBIND_NOT_AVAILABLE
...
[2016/04/24 13:45:30.001820, 10, pid=20243, effective(0, 0), real(0, 0), class=auth] ../source3/auth/auth_winbind.c:105(check_winbind_security) check_winbind_security: wbcAuthenticateUserEx failed: WBC_ERR_WINBIND_NOT_AVAILABLE

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Samba
  • Winbind

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