Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 11:44:49 +0200 From: Robert Frank <frank@ifi.unibas.ch> Subject: Re: Samba and NetInfo and NIS and LDAP and ... To: Jean-Francois.Micouleau@utc.fr, crh@NTS.Umn.EDU
Well, here I am. Just subscribed and got flooded ...
About my patches to samba and NetInfo support:
The patches are against 1.9.17p4 and concern only NetIno, but Luke (from
xedoc) mentioned that the ldap modifications would be quite similar.
I'll grab the latest svc and install it on SUN. I'll have plenty of time
during our easter holidays, during which I'll have a look into the latest
Samba files and I'll make some proposals as to the parsing stuff and the
parameter accessing.
I still think that the file accessing/checking/locking (on the unix side)
needs to be reviewed.
I also had the idea of adding an option to smbclient (and smbpasswd?) such
that when used with a GUI, it would print protocoll-like responses rather
than formatted text:
<nofill>
200 Server time is Wed Apr 8 11:27:49 1998
300 password send password here
200 Domain=[IFI2] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.17p4]
or, instead of the last line, separate the information:
201 IFI2
202 Unix
203 Samba 1.9.17p4
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This would greatly simplify making GUI's without having to incorporate the
Samba sources in the GUI's, thus, the development of GUI and Samba wonuld
not be coupled.
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Lot's of ideas, little time ...
Robert
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