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Originally Posted by kr0ne
If you're really feeling daring you could set up samba to function as a domain controller and authenticate all of your Windows machines against it.
That way you wouldn't have to provide credentials when accessing individual shares on the NAS (as long as you have permissions to access them) as you'd already be authenticated on the domain.
You won't be able to authenticate the Macs against the domain (without some jiggery pokery) but if memory serves when you connect a network share from a Mac it lets you provide a username and password to send... think it might even have a 'remember me' tick box in there somewhere.
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Not sure id be able to make the necessarily changes to samba on the NAS since it runs the samba server from firmware not the hard-drive inside it.
As much as I'd love someone to make a custom firmware like you can get for the linksys nslu2 (theres firmware for that which starts the boot sequence from its flash till it mounts the drive then it boots off that) i doubt its going to happen unless some clever bod just happens to buy one of these nas devices and then decides to make custom firmware.
I wouldn't know where to even begin with doing that.