Samba management

[Volker Lendecke]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:04:08PM +0530, Chetan S wrote:
> >Some of the management features you outline don't have a direct
> >mapping to existing RPC pipes so we need to think about what to
> >do with those.
> 
> Following up the "thin wrapper api" idea a bit more - is msrpc the
> ideal place for such abstraction or some other code-subtree common to
> Samba3 and 4  ?

Along all this discussion I always have the problem that I
don't have a clear picture where we want to go, I'm a bit
missing the initial "user" of this API.

What do you think about going into swat (I've NEVER looked
at that code to be honest)? To me this looks like a simple
enough application that would be a user of this API, and
it's very easily usable and thus testable.

My worry is that someone implements some API for some
internal IBM management interface (I don't think I'm telling
secrets here... :-)) that is then not general enough or not
of enough use.

Cutting swat into two pieces also has the advantage that the
API can slowly morph into what is really needed. For example
something like "give me the list of possible values for the
'security' parameter" is something every management app
needs.

Having that management API in place it should be reasonably
easy to write the IDL for to ship it via RPC. This is then
where porting pidl output to Samba3 comes in. But from my
point of view it's a lot easier to play with API-level
designs in a real application that needs it. And with swat
re-worked we have a good sample to test the API and a
documentation of its use.

The HTML does not necessarily need to be the most fancy
stuff on earth, if I remember swat correctly it already does
much of what
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Management_Interface puts as
requirements, so the HTML part (without having looked!) to
me looks not too difficult to grasp.

Comments?

Volker
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