First, I've never actully used Win NT (at least it's multi-user over network part) or Linux so I probably have no clue what I'm talking about .

I was wondering if there was a way to get Linux to log into a Windows NT server using domains. The current set-up is Win98 clients show a Windows Networking screen with username, password, and domain boxes. Logging-in causes a drive to be mapped with many folders, but each user has read/write permissions for only one (done with NTFS I assume). I want to know if a Linux box could be used to log into the same network.
I wanted to know this for the possiblity of convincing my school of switching to Linux, at least for the client computers.

they can comunicate without troubles, when using samba.
btw
wins reffers to windows network services, so rather use differnent short name for windozes, not to confuse people

Once Samba is setup, you have to create a machine account on the PDC. Then on the command line you have to type smbpasswd -j abc -r abcPDC, if your domain name is abc and the name of your primary domain controller is abcPDC.