> Which makes me ask: Have I just missed a way to have samba authenticate
> through Pam instead of using its own database?

http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/winbindd.8.html
winbindd is a daemon that provides a service for the Name Service Switch
capability that is present in most modern C libraries. The Name Service
Switch allows user and system information to be obtained from different
databases services such as NIS or DNS. The exact behaviour can be configured
throught the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. Users and groups are allocated as they
are resolved to a range of user and group ids specified by the administrator
of the Samba system.

The service provided by winbindd is called `winbind' and can be used to
resolve user and group information from a Windows NT server. The service can
also provide authentication services via an associated PAM module.

Ed Wilts
Mounds View, MN, USA
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