Endpoint Mapper

[ronnie sahlberg]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:25 PM,  <tridge at samba.org> wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
>  > The implementation of the Endpoint Mapper is complete. All functions needed by
>  > Windows clients are supported and fully implemented. In addition we support
>  > epm_Insert and epm_Delete over ncalrpc to be able to register and remove
>  > endpoints as the system user.
>
> have you been able to confirm that the epm_Insert and epm_Delete
> functions are wire compatible with Windows clients/servers? I tried
> running the rpc.epmapper test against Windows and it fails with a RPC
> fault, which may indicate that the wire format is not correct. Note
> that our epmapper.idl doesn't use the same IDL form as the IDL in the
> OpenGroup spec, so its quite plausible that we are not wire
> compatible.

Do you have a network trace of that?
Many years ago at SNIA you and I saw some weird stuff in EPM on Windows where
it looked like they were using UNIQUE pointers in EPM where there
should have been full pointers.


regards
ronnie sahlberg