summary [was Re: dce/rpc "client" api]

[Gerald Carter]

"Mayers, Philip J" wrote:
> 
> So, to summarise (correct me if I'm wrong)
> 
> 1) DCE/RPC has (mostly) a transport-independent structure 
> for it's PDUs. Luke favours the creation of a 
> generic, transport-independent library for marshalling, 
> unmarshalling, endpoint-mapping, authentication/encryption, and
> all the services associated with the RPC runtime under Win32

Correct.  And I will add this is a wonderful idea itself.
It should not be tide to Samba at all.  If it matures,
Samba could migrate to it.  It's just not going 
to happen right now as Andrew has said.

> 2) Jeremy, Andrew (and optionally others), for *Samba*, 
> favour implementation of per-data type marshalling 
> functions, using the service implementation code from 
> TNG. This would allow them to marshall to/from SMB,
> and pass full RPC PDU's to/from dynamically-loaded 
> modules, which actually *implement* the services.

Yes.

> Would it be possible to write an RPC library with 
> optional hooks in it. That way, Samba could (in the 
> future, after 3.x has stabilised, if the developers
> want to) use that library/IDL-compiler, and hook in
> at the points between 1/2 and 3/4 (or 2/3). Other 
> services, like our hypothetical "Exchange" server, could 
> let the RPC runtime handle the network stream level and
> optionally everything right up to calling the 
> implementation functions.

Once the dce/rpc development api stabilized (matured),
this might be an option.

Notice that Luke has been fairly quiet (in the grand 
flood of mail).  :-)  Luke?????  Where are you????





Cheers, jerry
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