se-samba

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 11:23:14AM +0200, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 01:29, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >  can i recommend - tridge, others - that you give serious
> >  consideration to writing an experimental samba 4 "NTVFS"
> >  SMB proxy client plugin?
> 
> That was the first VFS available for samba4, it has been used happily
> for many months now. And it's not that much experimental, it works
> really well and made a great job into finding out many errors in the
> core of samba4 and also samba3 handling of operations.
 
 brilliant!  excellent!

 that's actually _really_ good news.

 okay, so now it is possible to use that as the front-end for
 se-samba(4), and to run against a samba(3) server as the back-end!

 GREAT.

 okay, got a question for you.

 how does the samba4 smb client VFS proxy handle multiple
 TConX's over the same SMBsessionX?

 does it:

 a) try to multiplex them onto the same smb client connection?

 b) create a NEW smb client tcp connection over to the back-end
    smb server?

 if b) then the work needed to support se-samba is... like... done!

 l.