I even used a previous smb.conf from before i upgraded to 2.2.8a, which has no referance to ldap, but it still shows up in testparm as ldap= local.
Did you try to specify smb.conf file on the command line to smbd with '-s' option to be sure that this is the file your samba uses? Just a thought.
Igor
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