[Samba] newbie: Samba with Mysql question

[Lee Ball]

Are the people who you want to connect to Samba locally on your network 
or will they be connecting over the Internet? Its just I don't see why 
you would need OpenVPN unless they were connecting over a public network.

You may also want to look at 
http://samba.linuxforum.net/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/passdb.html#id2571894

Lonnie wrote:

> Greetings All,
>
> I am new to this list and currently have a Fedora 3 server set up with 
> Samba which just needs to be configured.
>
> I would like to set up the MySQL database support for users and 
> passwords as we have another project that will want to add entries to 
> the Samba database so when the users are created so that they will 
> have access to their home directories via samba.
>
> Could someone please give me a little guidance on how to set this up?
>
> I have Samba "samba-3.0.10-1.fc3" installed and my next step after 
> getting it to function cleanly will be to install the OpenVPN software 
> on the server so the clients will have clean and secure access through 
> samba.
>
> Thanks for any help and guidance that you could provide to get me 
> started on the configurations.
>
> Lonnie Cumberland
>
>


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