samr api

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

i have started on a series of mods to split the samr marshalling /
unmarshalling code away from the samr service code.  i intend to match up
rpc_client/cli_samr.c functions EXACTLY with samrd/srv_samr_passdb.c
functions, except for an _ at the front of the server-side functions.

to samba team members, please do not accept patches from people that call
the server-side functions directly, ask them to only call the client-side
ones. (samr_close() _NOT_ _samr_close()).  it is srv_samr.c's job to call
_samr_close(), not theirs, as there are memory-allocation / cleanup issues
and other things to deal with in srv_samr.c that they might not have dealt
with.

at the end of this, we will be able to provide a trivial loop-back
implementation of a samr API that cuts MSRPC marhslling/unmarshalling out
of the loop altogether, which is something that andrew really wanted:

uint32 samr_close(POLICY_HND *hnd)
{
	return _samr_close(hnd);
}

...
...

with which the samba code should be linked INSTEAD of
rpc_client/cli_samr.c and rpc_server/srv_samr.c marshalling unmarshalling
code.

simple, huh?

:)

so simple, why didn't i think of it two years ago, would have made life a
lot easier.

<a href="mailto:lkcl at samba.org"   > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton    </a>
<a href="http://www.cb1.com/~lkcl"> Samba and Network Development   </a>
<a href="http://samba.org"        > Samba Web site                  </a>
<a href="http://www.iss.net"      > Internet Security Systems, Inc. </a>
<a href="http://mcp.com"          > Macmillan Technical Publishing  </a>

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