[Samba] I have no winbind pipe!

[Adam Nielsen]

> I configured samba to run as a file server in an NT domain by hand,
> and all was going well except there were some permission problems. I
> decided to install and use SWAT to configure samba, but now I cant
> even ping winbind. I found that someone else had this problem and
> solved it by deleting the pipe at /tmp/.winbindd/pipe , but when I
> ran an ls –A command in /tmp I found there was no ".winbindd". Any
> help would be greatly appreciated? --

What happens if you run winbindd from the command line in debug mode -
what do the errors say?

Cheers,
Adam.