samba - Feb 2004 - Client linux samba and server pdc samba

hello.
> I am student of ingenieria of the university of manizales Colombia.  and
> samba mounts a servant to authenticate users in, the clients Windows
> authenticate in the servant samba to me PDC and my question is if linux at
> the time of initiating session with samba exists the form to authenticate
> clients.  If I can, where I can find information to form the clients samba
> in linux.  thank you very much by his help.  Att  Mauricio Hurtado