[Samba] Samba and /etc/passwd

[Shain Miley]

Hello all,
I was wondering if anyone knew a way to configure samba so that it does 
not use /etc/passwd for a list of users,group id's,etc.  I am currently 
setting up a server to authenticate against AD.  I have that configured 
fine.  The overall goal here is to provide a samba backup to our 
existing fileserverserver.  Here is the problem:  we need a way to sync 
the info in /etc/passwd between servers, these two serves will have a 
different list of users,groups,etc.  So instead of writing a script that 
will compare the two and add the ones as needed (as well as do a bunch 
of other cleanup work) I thought maybe I could have samba point to 
/home/user_name/passwd instead...samba has what it needs..and the 
accounts on the server itself (/etc/passwd) can be left untouched.

Thanks in advance,

Shain