OK this morning - the one morning that I slept in and went to work more 
'on-time' we had a server failure.

Workstations could not access the file shares.

First step of action with windows - reboot.

Rebooting the Windows server caused it to die - literally.
Nothing on the screen - just some cryptic beeps.
After some looking - memory module went dead - of course it had to be 
the 'big' one - so from 2.5 GB down to 1.5GB.....

Ok, so got that fixed.

Now bringing that back up - workstations still cannot access the file 
server.

The Linux file server uses Winbind with Samba to authenticate with 
domain credentials......  for some reason that is broken.

So I had the fun of on the fly configuring Samba to just share files 
without much security.

So now the hunt - why did winbind die......

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