Hi Andrew, my original idea was rather implement a separate project, not included into samba4 source but rather above it. If there was an unified way to provision samba related things it would not be problem to build a provisioning above the samba. No matter it is web based or whatever else. But it would require that the provisioning will not change and is well documented. I like python and django, so my original idea was to use this to implement web based provisioning to samba.
Vasek 2010/12/25 Andrew Bartlett <[email protected]> > On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 08:26 +0100, Vaclav Klecanda wrote: > > Hi all, > > I wonder if somebody have thought or even started some research about > samba4 > > web based management tool. I am convinced that such tool will greatly > > support success of samba4. I know about SWAT but it is PHP based and I > don't > > know the level of support of samba4. > > SWAT is written in C, and isn't very easy to extend. Samba4 one had a > embedded java-script based web front end, but this was abandoned when we > moved to python as our internal scripting language. > > We are not opposed to a Python based GUI for Samba, but are concerned > that any effort in this area would not only need to be properly > maintained (the SWAT2 that Samba4 had originally was very poorly > maintained), it would also need to be automatically tested. This is > difficult to do for a AJAX GUI application (the current standard for web > GUIs). > > Andrew Bartlett > > -- > Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ > Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org > Samba Developer, Cisco Inc. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
