passwords

[Eric Melville]

could someone please give me the lowdown on samba and passwords? i keep
trying to connect to any share name on either of my unix boxes, either
from each other or from a win95 machine... every time i can't get
anything due to passwords... does samba have it's own password file?
from trial-and-error it seems that it doesn't read out your /etc/passwd
file for user's home dirs...

thanks...

-E