authenticating windoze clients

[Alphonse Ogulla <ogulla@uonbi.ac.ke>]

Hi all,
Other than using Samba, what are the other preferred modern methods of 
authenticating windoze clients on linux servers.

I'm working on migrating Netware 3.2 users and services to linux and need 
basic authentication (user, group, password etc) and controlled access to 
shared network resources from windoze clients.

What I have in mind is using NIS or LDAP for authentication and NFS for 
network shares but the problem is obtaining free/cheap client software.

Please enlighten based on your experiences.

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Alphonse Ogulla
Nairobi, Kenya