I have smbwrapper and smbsh working on Debian/woody with the Linux 2.4 kernel and the default C library: libc-2.2.5.so. There is a problem that rears its ugly head with a few programs (segmentation violation, presumably due to some function which is not wrapped properly) but in general, and with most programs, it's working great.
Based on search results that I've found, there's been almost no work on getting smbwrapper and smbsh working on Linux 2.4 with glibc during the past couple of years, so I don't know if there's anyone actually interested in this. If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll post the patches and the list of known problems. Derrell