[Samba] Authenticating users over samba

[Kovar Jan]

Hello.
I am administrating about 30PCs with W2K and users are authenticated in
SAMBA running as PDC on Linux. About 16PCs have the possibillity to boot
also into Linux. I would like to authenticate also linux users using the
samba, because I do not want to copy passwd, group, shadow each time I add a
user, or even add the user on each PC. I do not use LDAP a do not know NIS.
Is it possible to use samba for such a thing? Any tips?

Thanks

Jan Kovar