Do a VFS_CONNECT in pysmbd

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 09:49 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 14:13 +0100, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:48:39PM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > I've updated my branch, trying to make at least some progress here.
> > > 
> > > The updated branch tries a VFS connect when the share is specified by
> > > the python caller.  So far this is done for the sysvol case, and so we
> > > remove the warnings that were issued during provision under 'make
> > > test'. 
> > > 
> > > If we change the code (as the old branch does) to accept a VFS connect
> > > on [globals] then we can always do a VFS connect, but for now it
> > > continues to fake up the connection in the default (unspecified) case.
> > > 
> > > https://git.samba.org/abartlet/samba.git/?p=abartlet/samba.git/.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/vfs-connect-3
> > > 
> > > Volker,
> > > 
> > > I know you have some strong feelings on this.  Is this incremental
> > > progress helpful?
> > 
> > Yes, thanks a lot. This is definitely a step in the
> > direction I had in mind.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> >From here, my plan is to improve the python interface (move to making
> the service argument a named argument), and add an optional --service
> argument to the 'samba-tool ntacl get/set' commands.  
> 
> I'll be back to the list when I have some more work done here.

I've done that, so I think the patches are ready.  

Do you want me to re-introduce the code to allow vfs_connect to -1
(globals), or just leave it as is?

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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