Hello and thanks for the great post. VERY complete and detailed.

getent passwd = i only get local users

wbinfo -u = gives me a list of users that do reflect the same users as in my AD server.

Message file =
got time offset of 16 seconds so that is not a problem.
got some root user unknown to the underlying authentication module (client not found in Kerberos database)
idmap_init: could not load remote backend 'server.....

no major errors.
I could attach a text file with the content of the messages file

Also is the method posted here valid for a Suse 10 (SLES 10) server?