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This simple and often-suggested command to test Samba: getent passwd reproducibly upsets winbindd on my SLES 10 SP1 machine. The command does often return many results from our campus ADS. But after it completes -- or if the command pauses for quite some time after showing local users -- Samba is troubled. In five tests this afternoon, after getent passwd, wbinfo --ping fails every time