so far so good... still in the diggin' process.

I did try su with a domain user and guess what? It worked and even created the user's local folder in /home/.. i was happy !

Fun ended when i did cat messages i get these messages:

Mar 30 17:14:12 poptarts winbindd[7645]: [2007/03/30 17:14:12, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_dual.c:child_read_request(49)
Mar 30 17:14:12 poptarts winbindd[7645]: Got invalid request length: 0
Mar 30 17:14:22 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:22, 0] passdb/secrets.c:fetch_ldap_pw(629)
Mar 30 17:14:22 poptarts winbindd[8203]: fetch_ldap_pw: neither ldap secret retrieved!
Mar 30 17:14:22 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:22, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_connect_system(872)
Mar 30 17:14:22 poptarts winbindd[8203]: ldap_connect_system: Failed to retrieve password from secrets.tdb
Mar 30 17:14:23 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:23, 0] passdb/secrets.c:fetch_ldap_pw(629)
Mar 30 17:14:23 poptarts winbindd[8203]: fetch_ldap_pw: neither ldap secret retrieved!
Mar 30 17:14:23 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:23, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_connect_system(872)
Mar 30 17:14:23 poptarts winbindd[8203]: ldap_connect_system: Failed to retrieve password from secrets.tdb
Mar 30 17:14:24 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:24, 0] passdb/secrets.c:fetch_ldap_pw(629)
Mar 30 17:14:24 poptarts winbindd[8203]: fetch_ldap_pw: neither ldap secret retrieved!
Mar 30 17:14:24 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:24, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_connect_system(872)
Mar 30 17:14:24 poptarts winbindd[8203]: ldap_connect_system: Failed to retrieve password from secrets.tdb
Mar 30 17:14:25 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:25, 0] passdb/secrets.c:fetch_ldap_pw(629)
Mar 30 17:14:25 poptarts winbindd[8203]: fetch_ldap_pw: neither ldap secret retrieved!
Mar 30 17:14:25 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:25, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_connect_system(872)
Mar 30 17:14:25 poptarts winbindd[8203]: ldap_connect_system: Failed to retrieve password from secrets.tdb
Mar 30 17:14:26 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:26, 0] passdb/secrets.c:fetch_ldap_pw(629)
Mar 30 17:14:26 poptarts winbindd[8203]: fetch_ldap_pw: neither ldap secret retrieved!
Mar 30 17:14:26 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:26, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_connect_system(872)
Mar 30 17:14:26 poptarts winbindd[8203]: ldap_connect_system: Failed to retrieve password from secrets.tdb
Mar 30 17:14:27 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:27, 0] passdb/secrets.c:fetch_ldap_pw(629)
Mar 30 17:14:27 poptarts winbindd[8203]: fetch_ldap_pw: neither ldap secret retrieved!
Mar 30 17:14:27 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:27, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_connect_system(872)
Mar 30 17:14:27 poptarts winbindd[8203]: ldap_connect_system: Failed to retrieve password from secrets.tdb
Mar 30 17:14:28 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:28, 0] passdb/secrets.c:fetch_ldap_pw(629)
Mar 30 17:14:28 poptarts winbindd[8203]: fetch_ldap_pw: neither ldap secret retrieved!
Mar 30 17:14:28 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:28, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_connect_system(872)
Mar 30 17:14:28 poptarts winbindd[8203]: ldap_connect_system: Failed to retrieve password from secrets.tdb
Mar 30 17:14:29 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:29, 0] passdb/secrets.c:fetch_ldap_pw(629)
Mar 30 17:14:29 poptarts winbindd[8203]: fetch_ldap_pw: neither ldap secret retrieved!
Mar 30 17:14:29 poptarts winbindd[8203]: [2007/03/30 17:14:29, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_connect_system(872)
Mar 30 17:14:29 poptarts winbindd[8203]: ldap_connect_system: Failed to retrieve password from secrets.tdb
...

don't laugh about my server's name.... internal joke here