[SLUG] Samba and Linux Help - I need a refresher

[Matt Hyne <mhyne@xxxxxxxxx>]

Folks,
	
It has been some time since I played with Samba and I wanted to find out 
what the current status is with regards to setting up a Samba box as a 
Network Attached Storage box.

Basically, I want to use a Linux box as a storage server on a Win2K 
domain.  I have it set up to do server authentication from a PDC (seems to 
work).  Do I also have to create local userids in /etc/passwd for all the 
users that will be using this via windows (what about smbpasswd) ?

I know there are a lot of organisations selling Linux boxes as storage 
servers (throw on a HTML GUI and you're done).  They claim they can just be 
plugged-in and configured - and that there is no need to configure local 
usernames or passwords.

What happens when users save files - how does the win2k username of the 
user get translated to a linux UID if there is no local userid ?

Has anyone used winbind to authenticate Linux users from an NT/2k Server 
?  It would be good if I can do all the userid/password maintenance on one 
machine without having to add a local userid to a linux box.

Lastly, anyone had any success using Samba as a PDC or BDC with Windows 
2000 clients yet - I would love to replace a Win2k server we have here ?

M