[Samba] newbie: Samba with Mysql question

[Lonnie]

Yes, they are generally coming from over the Internet and is the reason 
for the OpenVPN part of the project.

Thanks,

Lonnie Cumberland


Lee Ball wrote:

> 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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