When I first migrated a machine to Samba 3 I had all sorts of fun with picking up the old user profiles. The SID of the machine was stubbornly refusing to be what it should be and looking at the output of smbclient -L, the machine was in it's own "domain" rather than the correct one.
Eventually, I found that by setting "workgroup" to the domain name and "netbios name" to the host name, it behaved itself and properly created users with the right SID.
The other gotcha is that if you ever change the workgroup or netbios name then the SID is regenerated. So for porting profiles from one machine to another, the trick is to get these settings in smb.conf correct first, restart samba, then stop samba, copy secrets.tdb between the machines and then start it up again. That way you can migrate the domain SID around safely and the old user profiles continue to work.
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