Connecting to samba share with "smbclient -L <hostname>" fails with "error: protcol negotiation failed: NT_STATUS_INVALID_NETWORK_RESPONSE"

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Issue

  • Connecting to samba share with smbclient -L <hostname> fails with :
error: protocol negotiation failed: NT_STATUS_INVALID_NETWORK_RESPONSE
  • Cannot connect to samba shares - testing on the samba server with smbclient -L localhost gives an error:
protocol negotiation failed: NT_STATUS_INVALID_NETWORK_RESPONSE

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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