[Samba] Using ssh for samba authentication?

[Igor Bukanov]

I use ssh port forwarding to connect to a samba server from Windows
2000/ XP clients. But there is an annoying part that I have to enter my
password for samba shares after I already authenticated with the server
using ssh. Is there any way to setup samba so in the case of ssh
connections it would use already authenticated user name and would not
ask for any password for shares?

Regards, Igor