[Samba] MMC snap in Active Directory Users and Groups failing

[Mike A. Leonetti]

My goal is to set up User/Group/Computer policies to load up  at login. 
I downloaded the adminpak from Microsoft and installed it on an XP Pro
machine that was on the domain.  I logged in as an Administrative user. 
Samba is set up with LDAP Users and Groups.

I followed the directions on
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/PolicyMgmt.html#id2659443
and added the MMC snap in and when I do that I get an error saying
"Naming information cannot be located because: The specified domain
either does not exist or could not be contacted".  Now, this computer
has successfully joined itself to the domain and users can log in fine.

Alternatively, I was able to find a version of POLEDIT.EXE that will
generate a .POL file, but the latest .adm files from Microsoft fail to
load on it.  I am not really fixed on one option or the other.  As long
as one works.

Here is the workstation logfile on loglevel 4:
[2010/02/15 12:17:43, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1083)
  Transaction 9 of length 45                            
[2010/02/15 12:17:43, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(932)
  switch message SMBclose (pid 32303) conn 0xb8138640     
[2010/02/15 12:17:43, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(241)  
  setting sec ctx (65534, 65534) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0  
[2010/02/15 12:17:43, 4] rpc_server/srv_pipe_hnd.c:get_rpc_pipe(1271)
  search for pipe pnum=776d                                         
[2010/02/15 12:17:43, 4] rpc_server/srv_pipe_hnd.c:close_rpc_pipe_hnd(1169)
  closed pipe name NETLOGON pnum=776d (pipes_open=0)                      
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1083)                 
  Transaction 10 of length 43                                             
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(932)               
  switch message SMBulogoffX (pid 32303) conn 0x0                         
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(241)                  
  setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0                          
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 3] smbd/reply.c:reply_ulogoffX(1560)
  ulogoffX vuid=101
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(1083)
  Transaction 11 of length 39
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(932)
  switch message SMBtdis (pid 32303) conn 0xb8138640
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(241)
  setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(241)
  setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 3] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1239)
  flywheel (192.168.1.3) closed connection to service IPC$
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 3] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(69)
  Yielding connection to IPC$
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 4] smbd/vfs.c:vfs_ChDir(665)
  vfs_ChDir to /
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(241)
  setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 3] smbd/process.c:timeout_processing(1343)
  timeout_processing: End of file from client (client has disconnected).
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(241)
  setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 0
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 3] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(69)
  Yielding connection to
[2010/02/15 12:17:54, 3] smbd/server.c:exit_server_common(766)
  Server exit (normal exit)