[Samba] Samba Authentication of Local Linux Users

[Michael Thrift]

Hi,
    I'm trying to setup a samba server that will serve linux shares out 
to users accross the network.  I'd like authentication to be done 
locally, and I want it to authenticate against pam using the already 
existing local linux user accounts.  I am not authenticating domain 
users, or windows users, and I don't want to use smbpasswd.  Is there 
some way to force samba to authenticate against pam, and only pam?  My 
goal is to not add an administrative load whatsoever.  Currently, I have 
my samba server setup, and I can access a global share okay.  But 
anytime I try and access my user home directory from the localhost 
itself with the command smbclient after providing my password I get a 
"NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE," without a single log entry.  I've read 
http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/pam.html which 
says right at the beginning that it works for winbind, which I'm not 
interested in.  I just want to authenticate to pam, like ftp, or ssh, or 
anyother service authenticates to pam.  My /etc/pam.d looks good, and 
any help is greatly appreciated, I've spent a few hours on this with no 
success, I've searched every which way, and I just can seem to get it 
figured out.  Thanks in advance!

Mike.