vote / opinions required on rpcclient

Stephen Waters swaters at amicus.com
Mon Nov 29 19:19:43 GMT 1999


i have to say, i'm more in favor of the library approach rather than the
separate proggie approach. 1 library which different progs can call for
different functionality or one crazy person can make an uber-prog if
desired...

just a thought,
-s

Mike Harris wrote:
> 
> I agree!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Luke Leighton <lkcl at samba.org>
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 6:02 PM
> Subject: Re: vote / opinions required on rpcclient
> 
> > i think i'm going to make rpcclient the "main" program, for backwards-
> > compatibility.
> >
> > then create these new ones usrmgr, srvmgr, cmdat, regedit, that are
> > "subsets" of the rpcclient functionality.
> >
> > rpcclient has 70 commands in it, and that's a bit much, and it's not even
> > finished yet!
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Andrew Perrin - Demography wrote:
> >
> > > How about making rpcclient emulate these when called as such; then
> > > hardlinks from those filenames could act as their respective MS
> programs?
> > > Then the functionality would all reside in one program in the back,
> which
> > > would be callable directly for those of us who don't commonly use the MS
> > > tools.
> > >
> > > Cheers-
> > > Andy
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Andrew J. Perrin - aperrin at demog.berkeley.edu - NT/Unix Admin/Support
> > > Department of Demography    -    University of California at Berkeley
> > > 2232 Piedmont Avenue #2120  -    Berkeley, California, 94720-2120 USA
> > > http://demog.berkeley.edu/~aperrin --------------------------SEIU1199
> > >
> > > On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Luke Leighton wrote:
> > >
> > > > i need to know whether people think it would be a good idea to retire
> > > > rpcclient in favour of the following command suite:
> > > >
> > > > net
> > > > usrmgr
> > > > srvmgr
> > > > regedit
> > > > eventvwr
> > > > cmdat
> > > >
> > > > basically, a suite of programs that match nt's .EXE equivalents.
> > > >
> > > > luke (samba team)
> > > >
> > >


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