[proof of concept] libwbclient.so

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Thu Aug 30 12:41:58 GMT 2007


On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:22:46AM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> > One main question for me is: How much of the winbind pipe do
> > we want to expose via an API that we stick to in the future?
> > For example, what about the DC lookup routines that gd has
> > added recently for his krb5 locator plugin? How do we handle
> > changes here? 
> 
> My goal is that this library should be the only way
> that smbd communicates with winbindd.  So therefore if a
> fucntion is necessary added smbd, it must be added to the
> library.  I want to remove all compile time static links
> between smbd and winbindd.

Ok. That sounds simple, smbd does not use too much of the
winbind interface. If this is not the only interface into
winbind for other clients utilities, this task becomes a lot
simpler.

Volker
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