[Samba] Integrating Samba into a Database and configured for OpenVPN

[Jesse Stone]

Thanks for the quick response.  Without going into a huge discussion over my
plans (I've written up a several page phased plan for configuring Ubuntu to
my liking), I looked into LDAP and was afraid it wouldn't offer the
flexibility I wanted.

Basically, I want to intergrate two seperate environments to use MySQL for
authenication (for everything:  shell access, SSH, Samba, OpenVPN ect),
performancing logging, and user activity logging.  I then plan on using
Python to migrade the data from both MySQL instances (1 in app server, 1 in
DMZ) to MS SQL 2008 so that I can create a website (using C#) that displays
all aspects of my envionment(s) in 1 page.

I understand a lot of this may be done but the key is for me to learn new
technologies.  My work is pro-Microsoft and my passion/hobby is Linux so I'm
attempting to combine the two.  I plan on needing to learn Python for
extensive scripting to make all this work.

My problem, is I haven't found that anyone has done this before and I don't
know where to begin.  OpenVPN adds a second problem since I want it to be
completely segregrated from the rest of my network yet be able to reach
certain shares that will be on my local network.  Instead of sharing on
specific machines (or even having their names visible), I want all shares to
be done via Samba and then setup Samba so that it's the only visible object
for OpenVPN users.

I guess the main thing, I don't know (but I have a good guess) that my
approach isn't the best way to go about things but I'm using this has a
project to learn several new technologies (and have fun).

I hope that helps.

-Jesse

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 1:47 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:47 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Jesse Stone <jstone1999 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> This is my first post and I am relatively new with Linux.
> >>
> >> I am attempting to do three things and I'm hoping for advice:
> >>
> >> 1)  Intergrate Samba fully with MySQL  (unless another database would be
> >> considered better for this task).  One of the things I've always had
> trouble
> >> with Linux is that everything is seperate.  I understand that provides
> >> flexibility but I would like to configure my system (Ubuntu 8.04) so
> that
> >> everything is intragrated into 1 single database.  This includes SSH,
> Shell
> >> Access, VPN, VNC, ect.
> >>
> >> 2) I have configured an OpenVPN server that I would like to provide
> shares
> >> to via Samba.  The problems I'm running into is A) The OpenVPN is
> configured
> >> to be on a seperate subnet than the rest of my network.  I want to
> configure
> >> Samba (and only Samba, not the rest of the machines in my network) to
> appear
> >> under Network Neighborhood to provide share access.  The main thing is
> that
> >> I do not want VPN users to see any of my machines that sit outside the
> VPN
> >> even if (through Samba) they obtain data from them.
> >>
> >> 3)  I've been researching setting Samba as a domain controller for my
> >> Windows machines (and other Linux machines?).  I would like this to be
> used
> >> for the VPN as well.  Instead of me required to create actual users on
> my
> >> system and then disabling SSH access.  I would like to be able to add
> users
> >> via MySQL and indicate that they are VPN users and should have limited
> >> access.
> >>
> >> For me, this is a learning process and I do not expect detailed
> instructions
> >> in how to acomplish this.  I would just like guidance (web sites would
> be
> >> great) that would help me acomplish this goal.  What I do NOT want to do
> is
> >> have to setup two seperate instances of Samba, 1 for the VPN and 1 for
> the
> >> rest of the network.
> >>
>
> Why do you need MySQL to do this when LDAP does all of this without much
> effort?
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