dce/rpc "client" api

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Elrond wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:35:35PM +1000, Andrew Tridgell wrote:
> [...]
> > > take a look at api_NetWkstaUserInfo.  what parallels do you see between
> > > the data returned and the full NT user3 struct?
> > > 
> > > to my eye, they look pretty much the same.
> > 
> > My concern about the use of things like the NT user3 structure as a
> > central data structure in Samba isn't that it is large, or that it has
> > excess baggage. My concern is that it ties our internals to one
> > particular structure in NT. 
> [...]
> 
> USER_3 isn't the only struct, that is associated with a
> user in TNG, USER_3 is part of a samba-specific struct,

no, it comes straight off-the-wire from the NetrSamLogon response.

> that is associated with the VUID. 

correct.