samba - Mar 2006 - samba dead in the water

Samba is now dead in the water with windows sp1. How Nice@@@
 
 
You can no longer use group authenication at all.. 
 
 
This is not good
 
Even with the schannel disabled and all the so called work arounds ads
is dead on the group permissions to shares. 
 
 
 
help