I run samba 3 as the PDC on a network. I needed to log which users logged on and off on which machines in my network. Using the build in utmp = yes option was no option since UTMP was rotated using logrotate (so logouts were not always recorded correctly).

So I created a patch which enables Samba to log to a MySQL database. New configuration options are mysqlsessionlogging (boolean to enable logging), mysqlsessionloggingserver (MySQL server address), mysqlsessionloggingusername (MySQL username), mysqlsessionloggingpassword (MySQL password), mysqlsessionloggingport (MySQL port), mysqlsessionloggingdb (MySQL database) and mysqlsessionloggingtable (MySQL table; SQL statement to create the table is included in the patch).

Update 2013-05-02: I use the patch since 2009 (starting with samba 3.0) in a production environment.