Samba Client failing to connect using plain text password after RHEL 7.5 update
Issue
After the server update from RHEL 7.4 to RHEL 7.5, samba clients are not able to authenticate using a plain text passwords. Every time the client connects to the server it logs the following error message:
Error: auth_check_ntlm_password: sam_ignoredomain authentication for user [user01] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD, authoritative=1
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5
Samba 4.7.1-6
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