On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 19:08 -0800, Nagendra S wrote: > Hello, > > I've written a BSD application that has to do many parallel CIFS > authentications, SID to name, and name to SID operations. It was written > using smbclient application as an example and links against libsmb. The > problem is that it doesn't seem possible to send a large number of parallel > operations to the domain controller using the samba libraries, unless I fork > a lot of processes, which I cannot easily do. Even worse, if I send a long > running operation to the DC, all other operations block behind it. > > Is there code in Samba to do asynchronous communications to the DC? If not > in 3.21c, will this be available in v4 and when? Am I just missing > something?
Samba4 has a demonstration of parallel sid2name and name2sid operations in the RPC-LSA torture test. However, parallel authentication isn't possible, due to limitations on the windows server side (it dumps the connection...). Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. http://redhat.com
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