[Samba] puzzling samba failure

[Anna Barnes]

I can't work out why the samba server can't seem to authenticate at  
the moment. I stopped and started the nmbd and smbd and the LDAP  
server but to no avail.  i've copied the output I get from some of  
the samba commands.  I'm running it on a unix server, solaris 8.

regards
Anna

root at gandalf # ./smbstatus

Samba version 2.2.8a
Service      uid      gid      pid     machine
----------------------------------------------

No locked files
root at gandalf # ./smbclient -U abarnes -L localhost
added interface ip=156.145.179.27 bcast=156.145.179.255  
nmask=255.255.255.0
added interface ip=156.145.179.31 bcast=156.145.179.255  
nmask=255.255.255.0
added interface ip=156.145.179.29 bcast=156.145.179.255  
nmask=255.255.255.0
added interface ip=156.145.179.33 bcast=156.145.179.255  
nmask=255.255.255.0
added interface ip=192.168.1.27 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Password:
session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
root at gandalf # ./smbpasswd abarnes
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
ldap_connect_system: Binding to ldap server as  
"uid=admin,ou=Administrators,ou=TopologyManagement,o=NetscapeRoot"
ldap_connect_system: Binding to ldap server as  
"uid=admin,ou=Administrators,ou=TopologyManagement,o=NetscapeRoot"
No user to modify!
Password changed for user abarnes.
Failed to modify entry for user abarnes.
Failed to modify password entry for user abarnes