[Samba] Account Unknown for users with Samba 3.0.11/14

[James.Cort at u4eatech.com]

Quoting William Jojo <jojowil at hvcc.edu>:

> From: James Cort
>> All the documentation I can find online seems to be geared towards
>> getting the system up and running properly in the first place with
>> minimal requirement of understanding of how it all hangs together - if
>> someone did that in the past and made a mistake, it seems particularly
>> tough to figure out what they did wrong and, more importantly, how to
>> fix it without causing downtime.
>>
>> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>>
>
> Well, since this system doesn't have local files can you use secldapclntd?
> This will solve your local user problem (which is what I was driving at
> :-) ) by pointing to LDAP and making the users appear local.

I've already got Unix user logons working through LDAP and all the 
relevant configuration in nsswitch:

cronus james # touch test_JAMES
cronus james # chown james:u4ea test_JAMES
cronus james # ls -ail
total 16
166146660 drwxrwxr-x   2 james u4ea   23 Jan  9 08:23 .
      128 drwxr-xr-x  39 root  root 4096 Jan  9 05:46 ..
166146661 -rw-rw-r--   1 james u4ea    0 Jan  9 08:23 test_JAMES
cronus james # grep james: /etc/passwd
cronus james #


Isn't secldapclntd AIX-specific?  Everything I can find suggests it is. 
  This is Gentoo Linux.

>  There's also
> the possbility of WINBIND depending on how you want to approach the users.

Ah - now there's a possibility.  On the server that works, I can see 
winbind is running.  The absence of entries in the LDAP database 
suggests that it's using local files - but I can't find which local 
files it uses.