clientgen...

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Bartlomiej Czardybon wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I've got a few questions and notices related to clientgen.c. 
> Well... I want to write program, which could use shares of windows
> computers in some way - lets say it could be file manager.
> 
> I noticed that in latest samba package is nice set of functions 
> in clientgen.c, which would be usable as 'libsmb'.
> 
> Nica, although there was missing one function (in 1.9.18p4):
> cli_RNetShareEnum - I wrote it and added to my private copy of clientgen,
> if samba maintainers want it, I can of course send it to them.

yes.
 
> Here is one question: is there going to be done effort to make from
> clientgen.c consistent and in some way not connected with samba itself,
> set of functions, kind of library, which could be used by developers 
> of client programs ? I think that there is a need for such stable
> and well tested piece of software.

i already use it in pam_ntdom, totally independently.
 
> If not - are there any formal, or other reasons that should stop me from
> taking some obejcts to build up libsmb.a, and some *.h files to
> make prototypes for cli_ functions ? I think it is bad idea, because
> in current samba distribution there is no way to find out which files
> should be linked into libsmb.a and which not (I know which, because
> we've got 'smbtorture' program which is linked with clientgen), and of
> course it is way not ellegant.

take a look at http://www.cb1.com/~lkcl/pam_ntdom - i have already done
exactly this, going further by sub-dividing the dce/rpc code and the smb
lib code _both_ into separate libraries.

luke