On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 12:50:57AM +1000, Luke Howard wrote: > > > - is the winbind team willing to standardize the protocol, or at least > > ensure backward compatibility in future versions? > > Rather than inventing new protocols, why not just use DCE RPC over domain > sockets or TCP/IP? > > The only catch is that you need a DCE RPC client library. We're using the > OSF DCE runtime (actually, FreeDCE), which is BSD-licensed.
Because DCE/RPC is *horrible* ? :-) :-). If you need a new RPC protocol please use ONC/RPC/NDR not DCE :-). Jeremy.