Add note from "Roylance, Stephen D." <SROYLANCE@PARTNERS.ORG> about Solaris9 and

winbind
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diff --git a/docs/docbook/projdoc/Portability.sgml b/docs/docbook/projdoc/Portability.sgml
index 39ed37585f..cc21ecf255 100644
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+++ b/docs/docbook/projdoc/Portability.sgml
@@ -189,6 +189,9 @@ samba performance significally.
 <sect1>
 <title>Solaris</title>
 
+<sect2>
+<title>Locking improvements</title>
+
 <para>Some people have been experiencing problems with F_SETLKW64/fcntl 
 when running samba on solaris. The built in file locking mechanism was
 not scalable. Performance would degrade to the point where processes would
@@ -216,6 +219,16 @@ and rebuild samba.
 </para>
 
 <para>Thanks to Joe Meslovich for reporting</para>
+
+</sect2>
+
+<sect2 id="winbind-solaris9">
+<title>Winbind on Solaris 9</title>
+<para>
+Nsswitch on Solaris 9 refuses to use the winbind nss module.  This behavior
+is fixed by Sun in patch 113476-05 which as of March 2003 is not in any
+roll-up packages.
+</para>
 </sect1>
 
 </chapter>
diff --git a/docs/docbook/projdoc/winbind.sgml b/docs/docbook/projdoc/winbind.sgml
index 460038aea9..1f65e7a8b7 100644
--- a/docs/docbook/projdoc/winbind.sgml
+++ b/docs/docbook/projdoc/winbind.sgml
@@ -786,6 +786,8 @@ stop() {
 <sect4>
 <title>Solaris</title>
 
+<para>Winbind doesn't work on solaris 9, see the <link linkend="winbind-solaris9">Portability</link> chapter for details.</para>
+
 <para>On solaris, you need to modify the 
 <filename>/etc/init.d/samba.server</filename> startup script. It usually 
 only starts smbd and nmbd but should now start winbindd too. If you