samba netbios / namedpipes domination: a comparison with linu
x having a proprietary web server built-in
Jean Francois Micouleau
Jean-Francois.Micouleau at dalalu.fr
Wed Jan 9 05:52:06 GMT 2002
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 ntb at mts.ru wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Jeremy Allison wrote:
>
>
> Not so fast, please. Plugin (in form Andrew described before) allows only
> adding an rpc service on additional pipe (an one samba is not listening itself)
> It makes impossible using samba as fileserver with Luke's domain controller stuff
> (dce/rpc based netlogon, samr and lsarpc) which is, in my opinion,
> best solution not just for me, but for all who wants nt4 compartible domain
> controller
that's your opinion. The fact is that the rpc parser code in samba is
better than in TNG, it's been like that for more than a year. And the rpc
server code too, some of us have spend huge quantity of time improving it.
> (in perspective with almost all functionality, not just what samba team counts
> 'sufficient')
> with fileserver with acceptible performance (which samba tng is not).
> Ideally it must use AD-compartible schema in ldap (for using winxp and w2k w/o
> 'rpc domain controller fallback') - but this is another story, I don't want
> discuss it here.
yes you should not discuss it here, you clearly don't know what you're
talking about. Even in native mode, W2K does use RPC.
> > That was I can continue with "NOT CARING"
> > (which Luke thinks is an offence :-) whilst the people who
> > want to care about DCE/RPC named pipes can happily work within that framework.
>
> While samba controls arbitrary pipes itself it is almost impossible. I don't talk
> here about osexchange
> or something like, it can be implemented thithin this framework.
> But if it allows only adding but not replacing pipe handlers, it's more correct to
> say
> 'can UNhappily work (or try to work)'
why don't you write the code yourself instead of arguing ?
J.F.
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