You have it slightly backwards: Samba is an SMB/CIFS file *server*, not a client, so all deliberations about secrets.tdb do not apply. There is a Linux client filesystem implentation available (smbfs) but that will not allow you to join a domain.
Samba's winbind will. :-)
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