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This document is intended to step you through some of the basics of troubleshooting samba connectivity with your domain controller, using wbinfo.   This is not intended to show you how to configure Samba to talk to your domain controller.  Others have done a much better job that I can.

winbind must be running in order for wbinfo to work, and you need to be connected to your domain.

wbinfo -p
Ping to winbindd succeeded on fd 4

A simple ping test to see if your DC is alive

wbinfo -t
checking the trust secret via RPC calls succeeded

Verify that the workstation trust account created when the Samba server is added to the Windows NT domain is working. This is a good first step to make sure you can talk to your DC
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