Detailed Samba information is available in the digital documentation. Enter apropos samba at the command line to display some manual pages or just browse the /usr/share/doc/packages/samba directory if Samba documentation is installed for more online documentation and examples. Find a commented example configuration (smb.conf.SuSE) in the examples subdirectory.
The Samba HOWTO Collection provided by the Samba team includes a section about troubleshooting. In addition to that, Part V of the document provides a step-by-step guide to checking your configuration. You can find Samba HOWTO Collection in /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf after installing the package samba-doc.
Find detailed information about LDAP and migration from Windows NT or 2000 in /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/LDAP/smbldap-tools-*/doc, where * is your smbldap-tools version.