[cifs-protocol] [REG:110062452298172] Re: Text-file Schema for all of 2000-2008R2

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 11:43 +0000, Bill Wesse wrote:
> Resending the DumpSchema.cmd(.txt) file; I broke the earlier one during an edit (deleted a label ':Perform'). Sorry.

Dochelp.

I was working on this with Bill, but I need to bump this a long a
little, and to clarify things a bit more:

It is great having commands to dump the schema - we can write such
commands easily, and use those to confirm that the schema we supply to
our users is correct.  Indeed, such commands have shown that we have not
been supplied correct schema in the past.

However, what I need isn't tools to extract schema from AD servers, but
the actual schema, provided by Microsoft to us under the agreed licence.
This makes it unambiguous that we can redistribute the result. 

Therefore, we do require the schema from the WSPP documentation, we
require it in a format that is suitable for use in creation of an
interoperable implementation, we need is under the licence, and we
require that it is 100% correct. 

If we cannot get those assurances, we have two problems:  We waste an
inordinate amount of time fixing bugs that should never have occurred
(surely the docs were generated with tools such as you supplied in your
mail), and we loose confidence that any update to the schema or a new
revision is correct. 

Have you had any luck securing those assurances from the product group?
It seems to have taken quite some time, for something that should be
nothing more than providing an automated extract. 

Thankyou, 

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.

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