AD Authentication Failure after Reverting to Previous Snapshot

A successful configuration of Samba and Winbind allowing users to login to a Linux virtual computer using one’s Active Directory credentials might stop working after a few weeks. If the virtual computer was reverted to previous snapshot between machine password changes in AD, the AD controllers will not let the computer authenticate again due to machine password mismatch.
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