[Samba] Samba 3.0 and NIS

[Ben Blakely]

Hi everyone,
  I'm responsible for a small (~500 clients, 7 servers, 600 users) 
school district network.  It has been my goal for the last several years 
to gradually phase out all NT servers (Windows 2000).  The only obstacle 
here is that we have several (<20) Windows clients (2000/XP) in our 
Administration office and CAD lab that can't be removed.  My question is 
simply this: if I migrate my main file server (Win2000) to Linux (RH9), 
will I be able to set Samba up to authenticate to my existing NIS 
domain?  It'd be wonderful if I didn't have to configure LDAP (our 
network hardly requires that extensible of a solution).  What is 
involved or required in enabling authentication and password updates 
through NIS for a Samba 3.0 PDC box?

Regards in advance,
/Ben Blakely
North Polk Community School District IT
http://tech.n-polk.k12.ia.us