Hello again
new week of troubleshooting

with the modifications it did releave the messages file of error lines.
Now i get these:

Apr 2 11:40:04 poptarts winbindd[16784]: [2007/04/02 11:40:04, 0] nsswitch/winbindd_dual.c:child_read_request(49)
Apr 2 11:40:04 poptarts winbindd[16784]: Got invalid request length: 0
Apr 2 11:40:11 poptarts winbindd[16833]: [2007/04/02 11:40:11, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_connect_system(911)
Apr 2 11:40:11 poptarts winbindd[16833]: failed to bind to server ldap://server.domain.com with dn="cn=LDAPQUERYUSER,cn=Utilisateurs,dc=domain,dc= com" Error: Invalid credentials
Apr 2 11:40:11 poptarts winbindd[16833]: 80090308: LdapErr: DSID-0C09030F, comment: AcceptSecurityContext error, data 525, vece


Google time and Samba /LDAP time to read more.

and yes while SU a Win user, i do get the getent passwd list correctly with either coded passwords or the default coded ABCD!efgh12345$67890 . passwd.
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i am so close i can feel it but can't seem to find the final key to open my freedom door. tired of working on this problem.