samba 4: a new configuration system?

[Stefan (metze) Metzmacher]

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Sebastien Estienne schrieb:
> hello,
> 
> I read all your comments, and it seems that most of them were
> focussing on the backend of the configuration file: how can we store
> these informations ondisk.

I think we discussed only that because the internal part and abstraction layer
will be done anyway and that doesn't has effect to our users.

> But i think from a Gui (or anyone who wants to "programmaticaly"
> configure samba) point of view, the back end is not really important.
> It will be fine if it's a text backup or an ldiff one, or even a mix of both.
> 
> We just need a programming api for task that sysadmin  do by editing smb.conf:
> - add/remove/modify a share
> - modify/read global settings
> - etc...
> 
> And moreover for an external developper, he shouldn't care about the
> backend of the config file, it should be abstract. Otherwise when he
> wants to add a share he must check if it's stored in the textg file or
> the ldb, moreover how can he knows that the share he is adding is not
> already defined in another backend.

yep

> An other problem is the validation of data. i think validation of the
> data shouldn't be done in the gui, but in the api (returning an error
> code).

yep

> And i think that these problems will be faced (and solved) again by
> the people that will write the webserver gui (swat-ng) of samba 4.
> 
> So maybe this webserver gui could be split in 2:
> - a programming configuration Api
> - the webserver gui that would be a reference for using this api

yep that's the way it will work!
also our all internals of samba will use this api



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Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org> www.samba.org
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