[Samba] Samba authentication without unix account?

[Galella, Anthony]

Is it possible to use "user mapping" to make 1 unix user "smbuser" represent
all windows users.
I would enable the user "smbuser" as a samba user, then authenticate users
from a PDC (separate machine)so each windows user "winuser1,winuser2,etc"
has no unix account, but automatically gets mapped as "smbuser" on the Samba
box.

I don't need file level permissions for this Samba share, just want to
authenticate that they are a windows user, then they have full read/write
access to the share. IT won't let me add the Samba machine to the domain,
but perhaps I could use the PDC for authentication anyway?

Thanks for any help

Anthony J. Galella
anthony.galella at intel.com