[IDEA+RFC] Command line util for modifying services
David Armstrong
adavid at btinternet.com
Sat Sep 8 14:45:22 GMT 2001
Hi all,
I would like to write a command line utility for samba which allows the user
to create/modify/remove services on a Samba server. To give you an idea why
I would want such a thing, here is some background.
I am using Samba on my Linux file server to allow some windows users access
to the cd writer installed in it, and it works like this: The user first
fills in a web form to say they want to create a cd - what type of cd (mode
1, mode 2), capacity (74 min cd or 80 min), etc. The cgi script runs mkisofs
and mounts this to a mount point as a loopback device. It then uses the
command line utility to make the mounted directory available as a share. The
user fills this up with files across the network, and presses some more
buttons in their web browser which burns all the files to a cd.
There are also other nice applications - such as being able to download a iso
image [from a web site], drop this onto the Samba server, mount via loopback,
and the resulting filesystem shared - no more need to burn a cd just to find
the iso was corrupted, or that you only needed a few files from inside it. A
third application, which I can also see potential for is to have the Samba
server act as a gateway between windows users and CVS - they use a web tool
to download from CVS, and upload commits, but Samba is giving them the access
to the CVS'd directory.
I would like to know if the way I am proposing to do things makes sense, or
does something already exist for this? I had considered giving the users
access to SWAT, but I'd rather not!
I have started looking at the way SWAT adds and modifies Samba services, and
believe that I could use the same library of functions from a command line
program. But, before I start hacking code on this, please let me know your
opinions/thoughts on this. Please cc me on replies.
thanks,
David Armstrong
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