[Samba] Can Samba integrate with NIS?

[Bill Moran]

Mac wrote:

>Howdy,
>
>>From: Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com>
>>To: "Galella, Anthony" <anthony.galella at intel.com>
>>Cc: "'samba at lists.samba.org'" <samba at lists.samba.org>
>>Subject: Re: [Samba] Can Samba integrate with NIS?
>>Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 20:32:29 -0500
>>
>>Galella, Anthony wrote:
>>
>>>Is it possible to set samba to authenticate users with their NIS
>>>username/password?
>>>
>>>Do I still have to use smbpasswd?  Is there a way to automate, so NIS users
>>>will automatically have Samba access?
>>>
>>We're setting up scripts to use rsync to replicate smbpasswd to the 
>>multiple hosts,
>>it's described briefly in the docs that ship with Samba.
>>
>
>
>What are you doing about password changes in NIS and replicating them
>into smbpasswd?
>
>Wouldn't using 'security = server', 'paswsord server = Samba-on-NIS-master'
>be more useful on your other Samba boxes? (and perhaps more secure?)
>

Perhaps I'm a little behind on things.  But the last time I checked, 
that didn't work
yet, as Samba didn't support it yet.
Is the documentation shipping with 2.2.3a that out of date?