Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ilia Chipitsine wrote: I heard that libmsrpc is under heavy development now, am I right that such library also allows creating an opposite tool, such as unix command line utility for remote registry management ? if so, I'll take a closer look at it, I need such utility! :-) We've got someone working on a libmsrpc library in Samba 3 over the next few months. And several people have expressed interested in such a registry editing tool. Jelmer has already done some work on a tool named regshell in the Samba 4 branch. cheers, jerry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCyVd5IR7qMdg1EfYRAnFQAJ4rUtoruMLFkzLFgf0QygQHBRl6sgCfSVkm GWsxbh9sUoRKijDIDn9ZkuM= =BqNL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rhys Goodwin wrote: It seems to me that the very best place to store all samba conf options is in the ldap dir. I got all excited when I was taking a look at the samab3 schema and saw the sambaConfigOption objectclass, found out that is not implimented yet. Maybe Im being a bit narrow minded to assume that everyone is using an ldap back end? I like the idea of being able to whip up a very tidy windows based (MMC?) samba console and requiring only ldap connection to the server and be able to FULLY control samba. Perhaps smbd could be setup to be quite particular about when and how it would reaload options from the directory? Hope Im not on a different wave length to the rest of you! :) One of the things Beast and I were talking about is the separation needed between the access protocol and the data storage interface. I am in favor of using LDAP for sharing configuration data between servers. It doesn't make sense to me as the configuration repository for a single server though except in very specific circumstances. That said, I would expect to see more work in this area as time goes on. There's no definite design or timeline for integrating configuration data with an LDAP directory service, but there is interest. cheers, jerry = Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) --- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc I never saved anything for the swim back. Ethan Hawk in Gattaca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCyVjuIR7qMdg1EfYRAkj4AKCnx3Y0dVq/SjW7rUaHTe5F+dokuACgrR84 /iOGXVtS9DERRDnsxKurm9s= =5FCX -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
Hey Guys, It seems to me that the very best place to store all samba conf options is in the ldap dir. I got all excited when I was taking a look at the samab3 schema and saw the sambaConfigOption objectclass, found out that is not implimented yet. Maybe Im being a bit narrow minded to assume that everyone is using an ldap back end? I like the idea of being able to whip up a very tidy windows based (MMC?) samba console and requiring only ldap connection to the server and be able to FULLY control samba. Perhaps smbd could be setup to be quite particular about when and how it would reaload options from the directory? Hope Im not on a different wave length to the rest of you! :) Cheers, Rhys On 7/3/05, Gerald (Jerry) Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ilia Chipitsine wrote: Something like [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\global] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\homes] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\share1] ... so, if this will be implemented, I can connect with registry editing tools and remotely manage configuration ? Yup that was my idea. Each subtree of Samba's registry can define it's own security descriptor access check. So assuming that the user meets the appropriate securirt checks, setting a valuename/data pair would set the 'parameter = value' option for that section (which matches the registru value's parent key). This is a good ways out right now. But if there is sufficient interest in this kind of thing, I'm willing to work on it. cheers, jerry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCxz6AIR7qMdg1EfYRAoaZAJ93RDbVIvK1Dq+nEiPDF393fpzoyACcCkI+ AhksNeL6nIfYxplF96BTcm4= =Oh/o -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
Something like [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\global] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\homes] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\share1] ... so, if this will be implemented, I can connect with registry editing tools and remotely manage configuration ? Yup that was my idea. Each subtree of Samba's registry can define it's own security descriptor access check. So assuming that the user meets the appropriate securirt checks, setting a valuename/data pair would set the 'parameter = value' option for that section (which matches the registru value's parent key). This is a good ways out right now. But if there is sufficient interest in this kind of thing, I'm willing to work on it. nice idea. I heard that libmsrpc is under heavy development now, am I right that such library also allows creating an opposite tool, such as unix command line utility for remote registry management ? if so, I'll take a closer look at it, I need such utility! :-) cheers, jerry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCxz6AIR7qMdg1EfYRAoaZAJ93RDbVIvK1Dq+nEiPDF393fpzoyACcCkI+ AhksNeL6nIfYxplF96BTcm4= =Oh/o -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
Hey Guys, It seems to me that the very best place to store all samba conf options is in the ldap dir. I got all excited when I was taking a look at the samab3 schema and saw the sambaConfigOption objectclass, found out that is not implimented yet. Maybe Im being a bit narrow minded to assume that everyone is using an ldap back end? I like the idea of being able to whip up a very tidy windows based (MMC?) samba console and requiring only ldap connection to the server and be able to FULLY control samba. Perhaps smbd could be setup to be quite particular about when and how it would reaload options from the directory? Hope Im not on a different wave length to the rest of you! :) Cheers, Rhys I'm afraid that OpenLDAP (and LDAP in general) is not so popular for samba... Also, You can develop MMC snap for managing LDAP samba users and groups :-) Samba already can store users/groups in LDAP, while general configuration is just proposed as scheme... On 7/3/05, Gerald (Jerry) Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ilia Chipitsine wrote: Something like [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\global] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\homes] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\share1] ... so, if this will be implemented, I can connect with registry editing tools and remotely manage configuration ? Yup that was my idea. Each subtree of Samba's registry can define it's own security descriptor access check. So assuming that the user meets the appropriate securirt checks, setting a valuename/data pair would set the 'parameter = value' option for that section (which matches the registru value's parent key). This is a good ways out right now. But if there is sufficient interest in this kind of thing, I'm willing to work on it. cheers, jerry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCxz6AIR7qMdg1EfYRAoaZAJ93RDbVIvK1Dq+nEiPDF393fpzoyACcCkI+ AhksNeL6nIfYxplF96BTcm4= =Oh/o -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
Rhys Goodwin wrote: Hey Guys, It seems to me that the very best place to store all samba conf options is in the ldap dir. I got all excited when I was taking a look at the samab3 schema and saw the sambaConfigOption objectclass, found out that is not implimented yet. Maybe Im being a bit narrow minded to assume that everyone Currently not all information are stored in ldap (using ldapsam), afaik smb.conf is server dependants, hence not appropriate if stored in ldap. is using an ldap back end? I like the idea of being able to whip up a very tidy windows based (MMC?) samba console and requiring only ldap connection to the server and be able to FULLY control samba. Perhaps smbd could be setup to be quite particular about when and how it would reaload options from the directory? Not all users are using ldapsam, so this tool will not work for smba backend other than ldapsam. -- --beast -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: This is a good ways out right now. But if there is sufficient interest in this kind of thing, I'm willing to work on it. I can't speak for others, but IMO once provided, people will start developing tools to administering samba using this 'standard' API. -- --beast -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beast wrote: Hi all, I have tried to write management tools for samba, but it seems there's no standard way provided by Samba to change its configuration or modify users account other than direct modify the config file and or database backend. This make many tools less portable because it depends on the backend of samba. There might be a windows rpc call (use by usrmgr.exe and svrmgr.exe), is it the 'standard' way to access samba? There's a lot of rpc calls available. These will get you so far. I have considered making smb.conf remotely available via the registry API but its still in the thought stage. Would that be something that people would want ? Something like [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\global] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\homes] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\share1] ... so, if this will be implemented, I can connect with registry editing tools and remotely manage configuration ? And then editable valuename/data pairs for parameters. cheers, jerry = Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) --- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc I never saved anything for the swim back. Ethan Hawk in Gattaca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCw+ZVIR7qMdg1EfYRAiBLAKCmSXnxOlGBdtCfEt1CPu9VU3K4OQCg1b8T jfUZV7aV5LBgr+cbB4lHg4I= =T08R -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ilia Chipitsine wrote: Something like [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\global] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\homes] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\share1] ... so, if this will be implemented, I can connect with registry editing tools and remotely manage configuration ? Yup that was my idea. Each subtree of Samba's registry can define it's own security descriptor access check. So assuming that the user meets the appropriate securirt checks, setting a valuename/data pair would set the 'parameter = value' option for that section (which matches the registru value's parent key). This is a good ways out right now. But if there is sufficient interest in this kind of thing, I'm willing to work on it. cheers, jerry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCxz6AIR7qMdg1EfYRAoaZAJ93RDbVIvK1Dq+nEiPDF393fpzoyACcCkI+ AhksNeL6nIfYxplF96BTcm4= =Oh/o -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
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Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beast wrote: The XMLrpc piece would require both client and server piece. That just my bare example to use 'standard' protocol instead of proprietary protocol. Understood. But if we document and implement the protocol it becomes more open. There are no IP issues that prevent us from using MS-RPC. Jerry, I was just following the samba-technical discussion, aparently there was a discussion to put embeded webserver in samba4. IMHO its not a good solutions. Samba team is only 'responsible' to deliver library for accessing samba services, need no worry about the front end. Some brilliant people outhere will have more time than the samba team to develop nice GUI for samba ;-) So, libmsrpc is the right directions (IMHO). Logging: Samba log is not parser friendly file and not (much) useful for performance monitoring, if it can gives info as in maillog or httpd.log I'm sure somebody will write program to make a report of it. -- --beast -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: libmsrpc [WAS Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beast wrote: I was just following the samba-technical discussion, aparently there was a discussion to put embeded webserver in samba4. IMHO its not a good solutions. Samba team is only 'responsible' to deliver library for accessing samba services, need no worry about the front end. Some brilliant people outhere will have more time than the samba team to develop nice GUI for samba ;-) Well.I'm neutral on Samba 4's management interface most because I don't currently work on that branch. So it's really up to the Samba 4 folks what they choose to do. Samba log is not parser friendly file and not (much) useful for performance monitoring, if it can gives info as in maillog or httpd.log I'm sure somebody will write program to make a report of it. Funny you mention this. We're working on a new administrative logging system for Samba that would allow admins to better parse interesting information from either syslog or via the Windows event log API. Caleb Jorden (an intern at IBM) proposed some ways to do this earlier this week on Samba-technical. The thread can be found in the archives here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba-technicalm=111988835104587w=2 cheers, jerry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCxX33IR7qMdg1EfYRAk15AKCdf/ce3tLNl+DmeVRtsYPv85bKAQCg32X8 JtfazQp7901sLSF4N/qUVbY= =+JPd -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
Hi all, I have tried to write management tools for samba, but it seems there's no standard way provided by Samba to change its configuration or modify users account other than direct modify the config file and or database backend. This make many tools less portable because it depends on the backend of samba. There might be a windows rpc call (use by usrmgr.exe and svrmgr.exe), is it the 'standard' way to access samba? Thanks. -- --beast -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beast wrote: Hi all, I have tried to write management tools for samba, but it seems there's no standard way provided by Samba to change its configuration or modify users account other than direct modify the config file and or database backend. This make many tools less portable because it depends on the backend of samba. There might be a windows rpc call (use by usrmgr.exe and svrmgr.exe), is it the 'standard' way to access samba? There's a lot of rpc calls available. These will get you so far. I have considered making smb.conf remotely available via the registry API but its still in the thought stage. Would that be something that people would want ? Something like [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\global] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\homes] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\share1] ... And then editable valuename/data pairs for parameters. cheers, jerry = Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) --- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc I never saved anything for the swim back. Ethan Hawk in Gattaca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCw+ZVIR7qMdg1EfYRAiBLAKCmSXnxOlGBdtCfEt1CPu9VU3K4OQCg1b8T jfUZV7aV5LBgr+cbB4lHg4I= =T08R -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beast wrote: Hi all, I have tried to write management tools for samba, but it seems there's no standard way provided by Samba to change its configuration or modify users account other than direct modify the config file and or database backend. This make many tools less portable because it depends on the backend of samba. There might be a windows rpc call (use by usrmgr.exe and svrmgr.exe), is it the 'standard' way to access samba? There's a lot of rpc calls available. These will get you so far. I have considered making smb.conf remotely available via the registry API but its still in the thought stage. Would that be something that people would want ? Something like [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\global] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\homes] [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\share1] ... And then editable valuename/data pairs for parameters. I prefer samba to use its own way/protocol/procedure/etc to manage server, maybe implemented using xmlrpc or anything else, but it should be simple. Not all developer(user) are interested on all available options. This will boost the number and standarized samba GUI configuration programs. In samba GUI page, I found that most program are too old and unmaintained. If it is new then it focus on modifying ldap directly. Its better to use client/server model, even if tool is running from the same machine. Just my 1 cent. PS: Link to xSMBrowser in GUI page is work: The account for the URL you have requested is inactive or no longer exists. -- --beast -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beast wrote: I prefer samba to use its own way/protocol/procedure/etc to manage server, maybe implemented using xmlrpc or anything else, but it should be simple. Not all developer(user) are interested on all available options. This will boost the number and standarized samba GUI configuration programs. In samba GUI page, I found that most program are too old and unmaintained. If it is new then it focus on modifying ldap directly. Its better to use client/server model, even if tool is running from the same machine. I was talking about a client/server model based on MS-RPC. But first you mention xmlrpc which more of a soap/web services model. And then you mention LDAP. So you seemed to have jumped from one subject to another. In either case, it requires client and server support. We already have the MS-RPC server support and have someone working on a libmsrpc library easier client access. The XMLrpc piece would require both client and server piece. But technically you would not need integration with smbd to do this. However, I've always found that when the external management tools have to know the internal data format to do their josb, it is a recipe for disaster. Link to xSMBrowser in GUI page is work: The account for the URL you have requested is inactive or no longer exists. Thanks. I'll let our webmaster (Deryck) know. cheers, jerry = Alleviating the pain of Windows(tm) --- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc I never saved anything for the swim back. Ethan Hawk in Gattaca -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCw/M/IR7qMdg1EfYRAj+FAJ9qCZBv7lAeC++X3WwXrYvA29G5zwCgzVXX 98VsoRizEtxnNRQdSnpEpcA= =5cwZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beast wrote: Its better to use client/server model, even if tool is running from the same machine. I was talking about a client/server model based on MS-RPC. I just commenting on some samba tools which not use c/s model yet. But first you mention xmlrpc which more of a soap/web services model. And then you mention LDAP. So you seemed to have jumped from one subject to another. That might be because my lack of english skill, sorry :-) In either case, it requires client and server support. We already have the MS-RPC server support and have someone working on a libmsrpc library easier client access. Thanks, I'll look into it. The XMLrpc piece would require both client and server piece. That just my bare example to use 'standard' protocol instead of proprietary protocol. But technically you would not need integration with smbd to do this. However, I've always found that when the external This can be implemented on separate (optional) server process to handle this request (but no, not like swat) Thanks. -- --beast -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beast wrote: The XMLrpc piece would require both client and server piece. That just my bare example to use 'standard' protocol instead of proprietary protocol. Understood. But if we document and implement the protocol it becomes more open. There are no IP issues that prevent us from using MS-RPC. But technically you would not need integration with smbd to do this. However, I've always found that when the external This can be implemented on separate (optional) server process to handle this request (but no, not like swat) True. But consider the case where you are trying to manipulate printer information or file share acls. Then you either have to manipulate the tdb entries directly from this process (bad idea) or thunk down to passing it off to smbd. What I'm proposing is to bypass the middle service and go directly to smbd. We can create a new management pipe if existing rpc operations are not sufficient. Like I said before though, my ideas are in the thought stage as I work on other code. If you want to test out some of your ideas that would be great. cheers, jerry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCxAC6IR7qMdg1EfYRArXiAKCEsV9i0n+k2qe2UjgJhEbGxGFYzQCg8gbc NUxA8O3acdRF+UOJYl29gCY= =NqP6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:24:58AM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Understood. But if we document and implement the protocol it becomes more open. There are no IP issues that prevent us from using MS-RPC. Indeed. It would be best if the management tools ask smbd to do things - smbd knows what state it is in, and when it's safe. Also it allows us to modify the back-end formats without breaking the front end tools. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beast wrote: The XMLrpc piece would require both client and server piece. That just my bare example to use 'standard' protocol instead of proprietary protocol. Understood. But if we document and implement the protocol it becomes more open. There are no IP issues that prevent us from using MS-RPC. You are correct. User/developer should not care about how they communicate as long as there is standard API to do something. libmsrpc is the answer. Pardon my ignorance :-( -- --beast -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beast wrote: You are correct. User/developer should not care about how they communicate as long as there is standard API to do something. libmsrpc is the answer. Pardon my ignorance :-( Well I'm not trying to beat you into submission :-) Just looking for all the possible angles on various technical solutions. Thanks for the feedback. cheers, jerry -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCxLduIR7qMdg1EfYRAkdFAJ41etqZgiEeJtRiFTlex5h1t0DoHwCePc6H LvJ3I7NJZyiFkeGe4l55zoU= =im2c -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba