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How to authenticate windows xp system to linux server?

I have mostly Windows XP systems some mac and one or two win98 systems. I need to authenticate these systems to a Linux server. Is there a utility that I can use to authenticate to the network and then open up the network resources? Or is there a way to use the XP system login?

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1. well... i don't think there's a way... since i'm not familar with linux... ask to jeeves - http://www.ask.com
2. There are various ways. The best way, in my opinion, is using SAMBA (see the link in the sources below) to setup Linux as a Windows Primary Domain Controller (PDC). This capability has been around for a long time and it is extremely reliable. I ran an entire elementary school's network using an old 133Mhz PC as the PDC and file server. It was fast and nobody knew they were using Linux.