e: Problem to use VFS modules

Ganesan Rajagopal rganesan at myrealbox.com
Wed May 9 06:31:12 GMT 2001


>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Tridgell <tridge at samba.org> writes:


> btw, your message does confuse a couple of things. It is quite
> possible to have multiple alternative subsystems (eg. ldap, tdb and
> smbpasswd) with an ordering chosen in smb.conf without having loadable
> modules. Look at the existing "name resolve order" option for an
> example. What having loadable modules gives you is the ability to add
> new functionality without changing the core source code or
> recompiling.

Agreed. But this is not possible with the way the current passdb module is
written; all modules have an interface with the pdb_* prefix; so you can
compile in only of them. 

Ganesan

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