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I have been working on some updates for the samba3 packages, and want
some opinions on what to do with samba-vscan

Some background
1)Samba-vscan allows on-access scanning of files by samba, and will deny
access (and in the latest version, inform the user by windows message
that the file is infected) to infected files. It can be used with 5
commercial scanners (Sophos, Trend, MKS, Kaspersky and F-Prot) and the
Java-based open-source OpenAntivirus.
2)samba-vscan must be compiled in a compiled samba tree, so we currently
include samba-vscan in the samba SRPM, and you can enable the scanners
by rebuilding, ie 'rpm --rebuild samba-2.2.7-3mdk.src.rpm --with
sopphos' will build samba-vscan-sophos package with the rest of the
samba RPMs.
3)Up to now, building most of the scanners required having the scanner
software installed, however with samba-vscan 0.3.x this has changed
4)Now, all but the kaspersky scanner (requires a kaspersky lib) can be
compiled without having the scanners installed, however at least with
sophos or trend, the resulting scanner will only work with sophie or
trophie installed respectively. Now, sophie and (I suspect) trophie
require the scanner to be installed to compile, and will require the
libs the scanner provides.

So, is it possible to include the samba-vscan-sophos, samba-vscan-trend,
samba-vscan-openantivirus, etc RPMs in contrib? It won't be possible to
include sophie or trophie of course, so stuff won't work "out-the-box",
but including the samba-vscan rpms would significantly reduce the amount
of work involved. Of course, it may be an idea to include sophie and
trophie in the commercial CDs, and possibly the samba-vscan-kaspersky
(since kaspersky is in, but I haven't tested it yet).

These issues apply to both samba 2.2.x and samba-3alpha (which is in
contribs), but samba-3alpha may be more appropriate for testing these
kinds of issues ...

I have updated samba3 RPMs which are ready to go into contrib, once
these issues are resolved ...

Regards,
Buchan

P.S. Our order for Sophos just went through, in case you were wondering.
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