samba - Nov 2002 - Winbind and apache - help please

Greetings, 

I'm attempting to use an NT PDC to authenticate users on restricted areas of
an apache website. 

I have RedHat 8.0 with samba, winbind, mod_auth_pam, apache, etc.
Everything seems to be working fine with the following exception:  When I
change from  --require valid user-- to --require group "DOMAIN+GROUP
NAME"--, It appears that winbind is not able to recognize the user as a
member of the domain group. The error in the apache error log file mentions
that is unable to check the group file (no groups file?). When I type getent
group, I get a complete list of groups to include those on the NT domain. 

I've gathered that the group file that apache is reading by default does not
contain the NT domain groups.  I'd like to not have to manually create a
group file for apache.

What gives? 

Any help would be appreciated. 

S. Daily 

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Dear list,

for days and weeks, now, I am fighting to add our W2k clients to our 
domain. The previously NT4 server was replaced by Samba 2.2.2, and 
this is a list of what I tried so far:

- re-create machine accounts
- enable plain passwords in w2k registry
- enter domain suffix string 
- vary IP and name of clients
- add NT ACL = NO to [GLOBAL} section on smb.conf
...

Sometimes I seemingly succeed, i.e. joining the domain results in a 5 
minute pause and then a message "welcome to the domain". But when I 
try to enter username/password after a reboot, I always get the same 
message (machine account does not exist or account not valid).

I am very grateful for any suggestions
cheers
Ralf