Error in samba: "make_server_info_info3: pdb_init_sam failed!"
Nov 01, 2005
“make_server_info_info3: pdb_init_sam failed!”
If this error is appearing in your logs when trying to authenticate samba users to Active Directory with winbind, change your /etc/nsswitch.conf:
passwd: files winbind
group: files winbind