win2003 Active Directory authentication

[Frank Smith]

I am running AD in native mode.  By my ancient understanding of samba, I cannot join this domain.  I can authenticate using ldap, no?  Also, is this insecure due to clear text?   Any other ideas for what I want here?

Thanks!

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