Very basic database help

Good evening guys,
I am currently writing a program that needs the use of a database. At the moment I am trying to get a simple combobox working.
The problem I am having is that I have never done any work with databases and VB08.
I am using an access database that has the fields
SMTP, Port, SSL

I want to populate a combo box with the field SMTP and from there I want 2 other labels to be filled in with the port and ssl details

I was wondering a) How do I set the connection up with Visual Basic (within the database I am using MySQL to get the information)
b) How do I go about populating the combo box?

Thank you for reading
Laura

I am a little confused, you say your using an access database, then you ask how to setup a connection and you are using MySql to get information?

With that said look at:

connectionstrings.com

for creating a connection

Then you can create a datatable and then bind the table to combobox