Samba share access from windows server 2012 R2 standard server keeps prompting for username and password even after entering the correct username and password.

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Issue

  • Samba share access from windows server 2012 R2 standard server keeps prompting for username and password on RHEL 7+ and samba-4.10.x.

  • Share access locally using smbclient on security=user is successful however accessing the share from windows server keeps prompting for username and password.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Samba

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