Windows Search Protocol for samba share

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 08:14:30PM +0000, Jean-Daniel FISCHER wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I wish to develop Windows Search Protocol (MS-WSP) support for samba share.
> I have gone through the specification and I am confident it can be done.
> 
> The protocol works on top of SMB using the named pipe MSFTEWDS according to
> the specification MS provides.
> 
> I am looking for a way to declare this named pipe into samba and make all
> requests made on that named pipe forward to an external program.
> 
> I have  looked over samba source code, wiki and mailing list archives
> during the last month, I can’t find a way to do it. Is there any way to do
> this ?

It's not well documented, but it is possible.

Look into the spoolss code, there is some structure
there to talk to a separate daemon pool that handles
the spoolss protocol.

Simo and Andreas did a lot of work on this, look at
the make_external_rpc_pipe_p() function.

Jeremy.