I'll just go ahead and reply to my own message with some info I've
found... see if that inspires anyone to help.
After some greping through the smbpasswd source code (pretty clean
stuff, if I may say so), I figured the line of death resides in
passdb/passdb.c, function pdb_init_sam_new, lines 304
This totally worked a few days ago... when running 'smbpasswd -a user
-D 5' I get the following:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/niles/ldap/debian# smbpasswd -a user -D 5
Netbios name list:-
my_netbios_names[0]="LOGOS"
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Trying to load: ldapsam:ldap://logos.biosta
