Hello, May I suggest Wt ( http://webtoolkit.eu ) to implement that web front-end? It's C++, so you can use libsmbclient directly, no need for bindings. It'd make easier to keep up with API changes. UI testing is possible with Selenium ( http://www.infoq.com/articles/testing-ajax-selenium ).
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Vaclav Klecanda <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
