Cannot Access Samba Shares After Latest Update

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Yesterday (12/17/16), I updated my CentOS 7 machine with the latest updates. Prior to the updates both my Windows 10 and CentOS 7 machines were able to access Samba shares hosted on a Fedora 25 server.

After rebooting the CentOS 7 machine, I get the dreaded “Unable to access location — Failed to receive share list from server –

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  • No solution, but to be clear: The nmblookup userland utility can access the remote shares, but the kernel cifs filesystem can’t. So something’s wrong in the mount system. Are there any messages in /var/log/messages when you mount/umount that mount point?

    Or in any other log file? When I’m not sure where a subsystem logs, I
    use “ls -lt /var/log | head” to sort by date right after I stimulate the error, and the relevant files should be near the top of the list.