proposal for remotable smb.conf via \winreg pipe

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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David Collier-Brown wrote:

| I flat like it, but you arguably need a
| test-and-set api, so you can say either
| - set this option and report only if you
|   physically couldn't
| - if and only if this option is sane, set it.
|
| The latter allows for checks like "did you just
| set a printer share  non-printable?" If you really
| wanted to shut down that printer you could, but
| only by calling the mandatory interface.

The smbconf registry backend would do any sanity
checks necessary such as "is this a valid parameter
name?", "Is the value valid", etc....  A failure
for a given check can just return IO failure or access
denied.



cheers, jerry

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