Error added: 2011-05-03T13:57:53Z
You are missing IDMAP configuration options in your smb.conf Add these for a minimum. But, read up on the vast array of new smb.conf options.
idmap backend = tdb
idmap uid = 10000-20000
idmap gid = 10000-20000
Turns out this was related to winbind which is predominantly for active directory services. Since I don't use this (and set security=user or security=share) the simplest solution is to remove the winbindd service altogether: $ apt-get purge winbind
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