[samba-tng] spoolss conversion and others

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Elrond wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 04:39:29AM +1100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > > > then i will get on with designing and writing a srv_samrd_tdb.c.  
> > > > _that's_ going to be fun, i get a chance to cut out all that trash in
> > > > passdb/*.c and groupdb/*.c, hooray, at last i hear you all say.
> > > 
> > > I hope, there will be some nice tools to modify the
> > > database by hand. (I'm one of those admins, who like his
> > > editor for doing _many_ things.)
> > 
> > :) rpcclient will be your best friend.
> 
> Well, I like to do funny things, like comment out users,

oo! *wobble*  makes me go jittery at the knees just tinking about it.

> and create temporary new lines for them and other stuff...
> Or grabbing crypted pws from nt-boxes and writing them
> directly into smbpasswd.

there's alsways rpcclient samsync command for that one, you know :)
 
> Yes, I know, one shouldn't do this, but hey, in 99% of the
> cases, I know, what I do. ;)

true.

 and hey, writing a tdbdump can't be _that_ hard!  come on, there's
dump_data() and its partner, out_data(), and i also added out_struct()
because i needed to produce hex dumps and use them in c-code.

luke