samba run-time modification to smb.conf files

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sat, 25 Apr 1998, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:

> > 
> > there are numerous dce/rpc "set" calls.  is it reasonable to support
> > these?
> > 
> > if so, we will need to add the capability (currently only found in swat)
> > to smbd to write to smb.conf files.  this is one reason why i suggested
> > that swat (or swat v2) go "via" a samba daemon instead of editing smb.conf
> > files direct.
>              ^ directly
>                      --
> 
> Luke,
> 
> I don't know the specifics of dce/rpc.  Is this something we can freely 
> implement?

we _are_ implementing it :-) :-)
 
> I've been talking about putting an interface in front of passwords, WINS
> database, configuration, and other internal data sets.  A while ago, you
> suggested dce/rpc for this.  I'd like to consider it, but I need more
> info. 

dce/rpc is a means to make procedure calls over a network.  it specifies
the means by which the data structures are "flattened" and then
reconstructed.
 
> Note that such a move will take a great deal of time.  Not because it's 
> hard, but because we'll want to go at it slowly.  If we succeed, we'll 
> have an interface that can be used to tie in *separate* LDAP, SQL, etc. 
> type tools.

ok, this is independent of what the back-end is: this is the communication
mechanism.