SearchOpenSource.com is running a series of articles on Managing Samba by the Samba Team's John H. Terpstra. For part one, see Windows network identity basics. Part two is on User rights and privileges. John's goal in writing this series is to:

provide a better understanding of the relationship between Windows networking accounts and their equivalent on the Unix or Linux server that is running Samba.

Visit the links above for parts one and two in the series, and keep an eye out for forthcoming articles on: the creation of a network-wide remote management infrastructure, use of the pdbedit utility to manage user accounts and to configure network security settings, and the use of various remote management tools.