a proposal for Samba 3.5

[tridge at samba.org]

Andrew,

 > CUPS should never have used rpcclient like that, nor assumed that our
 > internal testing tool would have an interface sufficiently consistent
 > for use in the way that cupsaddsmb does.

I can understand why CUPS did this - there just isn't any other
interface available for some of the needed functions.

 > The tool which we provide for that purpose is 'net' - and I think that
 > the tasks CUPS needs to perform should be done via a new incarnation of
 > that interface.

yes, I agree completely.

Cheers, Tridge