>technically, the pipe split was at the RPC PDU layer. not arbitrary >support for loading a named pipe module. We still have a hard coded >path for supported pipe names. It was just the RPC functions that got >split out. This is good from a SQA perspective but maybe not so much >for supporting other named pipes (that will come later).
Well, the next thing I plan to do with the DCE funnel is provide the option to fall back to SAMBA implementations for services not registered in the endpoint mapper. Although there is an initial cost in decoding the IDL for NT services and debugging the interoperability of the OSF DCE runtime, it's real nice to be able to have all the marshalling and unmarshalling taken care of by an IDL compiler, be able to support RPC directly over IP (as required by Windos 2000) and yet still have SAMBA funnel over named pipe RPCs. :-) -- Luke -- Luke Howard | lukehoward.com PADL Software | www.padl.com
