Now that everything is configured, start samba and winbind back up

/etc/init.d/winbind start && /etc/init.d/samba start

If everything you set in the previous steps was correct, you should now be able to join your machine to the domain. What this does is create a machine account in your Active Directory (and a number of other things behind the scenes).

net ads join -U ((administrative user))

You should see

Joined ((server name)) to realm ((domain)).com

test if winbind is working properly with

wbinfo -t

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