API to samba

[Seb James]

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 12:05, Seb James wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I'm wanting to get some group and user info from a windows network. I'm
> hoping that I can obtain this from samba via an API. 
> 
> I have 2 boxes; one the Primary Domain Controller and box 2, which is
> running my application, in which I would like to know group and user
> info from the PDC.
> 
> There is account info on the Windows NT primary domain controller.
> 
> Now, I understand from the samba howto collection, that I can't run
> samba as a backup domain controller to the NT pdc. So, I will swap the
> NT PDC to being a Samba PDC, so that my box 2 can now run Samba as a
> backup domain controller.
> 
> Do I have any alternative to swapping the NT PDC for a Samba PDC? i.e.
> can Samba get any user or group info from an NT PDC?
> 
> Now that I have my box number 2 running a samba backup domain controller
> which therefore holds the group and user info, I would like to query it
> through an API for the following info:
> 
> Either:
> 
> 1) I have a client's IP number, and would like the user who is logged
> into that client and that user's group.
> 
> 2) I have a username and would like to obtain the user's group.
> 
> If I can do 1) I'll be happy, if not, then 2) would be sufficient info.
> 

I think I can do 2) by running a Winbind daemon on the linux client and
having my app call getgrent(), but I'm not sure this'll get me as far as
1).

> Can I get this info into my application via a Samba API?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Seb James
> 
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