Getting Desperate

[Paul J. Caritj]

OK,
I'm getting desperate. I am sure this problem is nothing out of the
ordinary, but I've never used samba (and, only rarely, linux) and I need
this thing running by next week.
What I've Done:
I have a Windows2000 PDC and (save one) 2000 clients. I have a linux
fileserver (Kernel 2.4; Redhat 7.1; Samba 2.2.2) sharing two public folders
("Resources" and "Tax")

What I need:
A home directory for any given user who browses their way into the
fileserver through Network Neighborhood. Each also needs to map a network
drive (Z:) to their Home directory. I have the home directories working
properly but no one can log in.

At the risk of sounding lazy, what should smb.conf look like? How do I
handle passwords (that is the main issue). I have little interest in
integrating with the PDC's security. I just want to make the accounts
manually on the unxix machine.

So, I know this is a lot to ask, but could someone give me a step by step to
(in summary) do the following:

configure home directories for users in which the corrosponding user has
full permissions (Read, write, execute, the whole enchilada) that they can
successfully log into from their Win2000 workstation. Again, password
servers, domain membership, etc are irrelevent. I'm willing to either use
encrypted passwords on the Liux box OR unencrypted passwords on the Windows
box. Whichever is easier, as long as it works.

If someone could help me with this I would appreciate it SO much.

Thank you,
Paul Caritj
pcaritj at riovia.net