XAD Hooks for Samba3 (was [PATCH] : Support for External RPC in Samba3)

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 02:40 -0600, Har Gagan Sahai wrote:
> >> Hi, 
> 
> >> 
> 
> >> 
> 
> >> We are proposing the patch to introduce the external RPC server
> support with Samba 3, where the external RPC server 
> 
> >> is capable of handling the MSRPC requests. 
> 
> > 
> 
> >G'day, 
> 
> > 
> 
> >I wanted to first thank you for your mail, and for proposing these 
> 
> >patches publicly.  It is useful to see how companies are using
> Samba, 
> 
> >and XAD (as most of the Samba Team would know DSfW as) is certainly
> one 
> 
> >of the more interesting uses of Samba.  I first met Luke Howard
> though 
> 
> >his XAD efforts almost a decade ago, and have followed it with
> intrigue 
> 
> >and interest as I worked on Samba4.  I've retitled the thread for 
> 
> >clarity to my fellow team members as to what we are dealing with
> here, 
> 
> >as most of us know of XAD and have met Luke at some point. 
> 
> > 
> 
> 
> Hi Andrew, 
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot for looking into this. We really appreciate your
> response. 

No worries. 

> We have been working on reducing the patch size by being more generic.
> Also we are seeing 
> 
> more value in using the native samba code, in place of new code. We
> will be focusing on this 
> 
> approach to all possible extent. 

Great.  I do appreciate it will be a difficult and challenging task, but
it is what we need to do.  Please keep me and the list in the loop as you discuss
ideas and approaches, as discussing ideas early will help ensure your
work isn't wasted.

> We will definitely attempt the porting of patch to the master branch.
> But our immediate samba version is 3.6.3, for which 
> 
> we would like to target the patch. Please let us know how we can
> achieve that. 

You are welcome to target any version of Samba for your own customers,
that is the freedom that Free software gives you.  But upstream Samba
will only accept changes of this magnitude for master, so for the
patches you wish to discuss with me, and which you wish to propose, they
must be against master. 

I hope this makes things clear.

Thanks,

BTW, I noticed since my last mail that to direct all authentication to
winbindd, you just need to use auth_wbc 'auth methods = wbc'.  

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
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