Comment 3 for bug 302092

Indeed, that is how I worked around the problem.

The system is running Intrepid. samba, samba-common and libpam-smbpass are all at version 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3.

$ find /var/lib/samba/ -ls
2766950 4 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Nov 1 22:57 /var/lib/samba/
2766990 4 -rw------- 1 root root 696 Jul 6 17:38 /var/lib/samba/ntforms.tdb
2766969 4 -rw------- 1 root root 4096 Jul 6 17:38 /var/lib/samba/group_mapping.tdb.upgraded
3662964 80 -rw------- 1 root root 77824 Nov 1 22:57 /var/lib/samba/group_mapping.ldb
2766988 4 -rw------- 1 root root 4096 Jul 6 17:38 /var/lib/samba/ntdrivers.tdb
2766951 4 drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Oct 30 17:52 /var/lib/samba/printers
2763491 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 10 15:12 /var/lib/samba/printers/COLOR
2763515 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 10 15:12 /var/lib/samba/printers/W32PPC
2763493 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 10 15:12 /var/lib/samba/printers/W32ALPHA
2766962 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 30 16:56 /var/lib/samba/printers/WIN40
2763516 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 10 15:12 /var/lib/samba/printers/x64
2763492 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 10 15:12 /var/lib/samba/printers/IA64
2766961 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 30 16:56 /var/lib/samba/printers/W32X86
2763494 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 10 15:12 /var/lib/samba/printers/W32MIPS
2763497 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Aug 9 21:26 /var/lib/samba/winbindd_idmap.tdb
2766975 36 -rw------- 1 root root 36864 Nov 25 10:13 /var/lib/samba/registry.tdb
2766967 8 -rw------- 1 root root 8192 Nov 25 16:06 /var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb
2766976 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 6 17:38 /var/lib/samba/perfmon
2766970 4 -rw------- 1 root root 4096 Oct 30 17:31 /var/lib/samba/account_policy.tdb
2766947 20 -rw------- 1 root root 20480 Nov 25 15:25 /var/lib/samba/share_info.tdb
2766989 20 -rw------- 1 root root 20480 Nov 25 10:13 /var/lib/samba/ntprinters.tdb
2766968 12 -rw------- 1 root root 12288 Nov 25 16:06 /var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb
2766971 4 drwxrwx--T 2 root sambashare 4096 Nov 17 14:33 /var/lib/samba/usershares
2763489 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 theuser theuser 102 Nov 17 14:33 /var/lib/samba/usershares/somefile