Re: Management of Samba

Jean-Francois Micouleau (Jean-Francois.Micouleau@utc.fr)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 16:36:49 +0100 (MET)

Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 1998 16:36:49 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jean-Francois Micouleau <Jean-Francois.Micouleau@utc.fr>
To:	Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@switchboard.net>
Subject: Re: Management of Samba
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980325151422.4887I-100000@cb1-gw.cb1.com>

On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> absolutely piddling easy. if you wanted a new version of an interface,
> you create a new number for it (12 bytes plus an interface version?) and
> then create your new functions.
>
> or you could add a totally new function number. or increase the version
> number of an existing interface.

or you can create a new pipe, eg : \\PIPE\sambaadm

> each new function will take about half an hour to an hours' work to code
> up.

time is depending of the state of your fingers and how well you wrote your
protocol spec :-)

Currently I'm spending more time on decoding frames and on paper writing
the protocol used than really coding !!! That's the fun part of the job !

Jean Francois

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