[IDEA+RFC] Command line util for modifying services
Simo Sorce
idra at samba.org
Sat Sep 8 17:57:05 GMT 2001
you will be able to do that with rpcclient, only need to check if all the calls are exposed.
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 10:48:35PM +0100, David Armstrong wrote:
> 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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