[ILUG] Firewall and Proxy and Samba

[Diarmaid McGowan]

Hi,
I have just setup Mandrake 7 as our file server. I have Samba running on
linux with several win98 machines and one win2000 machine accessing it. How
do I set Samba so that when I create a new account for The linux machine It
automatically sets one up on Samba as well???

I am also using wingate on one of the win98 machines as the proxy and
firewall and I want to set up the linux box as the firewall and the proxy
server. I think that I will also have to do masquerading. There seems to be
many examples of setting up linux as a proxy and firewall for 3 levels of
access and others for setting it up over dial up. At present I access the
Web through a wingate proxy on a win98 machine and via an external ethernet
LAN and I want to set up something similar or (hopefully better) on Linux???

Also I am using IIS 5 on win2000 for web hosting of dynamic pages (.asp's)
querying the same Access database as those one the local Lan. Is there an
easy way of setting it up to dynamically query an Access database through
Apache???

Also the internal Lan is just a peer to peer ethernet network and when it
set up the second ethernet card with the gateways etc for to access the Web
via the external ethernet network, it leaves the machine inaccessable
internally???

I am also thinking of setting up the linux box as a SMTP server for both
internal mail and external mail, I know that I use sendmail but how hard is
it???

I am just wondering if anyone has done something similar or if you know of
any site(s) with good demos or walkthroughs that just tells you how to do
it!!!

Many Thanks,
Diarmaid.