smbclient command with -k (--kerberos) option fails with an error: session setup failed: NT_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER

Issue

• Accessing samba share via smbclient command with -k (--kerberos) option fails with an error below though kinit was successful.

[root@rhel8u9 automate]#  kinit  linuxjoin@EXAMPLE.COM
Password for linuxjoin@EXAMPLE.COM:

[root@rhel8u9 automate]#  smbclient  -L `hostname` -k
WARNING: The option -k|--kerberos is deprecated!
gensec_spnego_client_negTokenInit_step: gse_krb5: creating NEG_TOKEN_INIT for cifs/rhel8u9.example.com failed (next[(null)]): NT_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER
session setup failed: NT_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER  <----