DCERPC requirements for DFS-R

[Samuel Cabrero]

Hi,

I am also interested on this because I have started to work on
implement the missing parts on the initial Matthieu's work to get a
working client for the general case, not only for sysvol (multiple
content sets per replica group and arbitrary replication topology) [1].

I am working on top of current master and I haven't found any problem
related to DCERPC, so is it insufficient only for the server side but
enough for the client?

[1] https://github.com/kernevil/samba/tree/dfs-r

On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 09:40 +1200, Garming Sam via samba-technical
wrote:
> Mentioned here:
> 
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2014-October/102737.h
> tml
> 
> 
> On 07/09/17 08:48, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 12:01:01PM +1200, Garming Sam via samba-
> > technical wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > We've been asked to look into SYSVOL replication and I'm aware
> > > that
> > > our current DCERPC infrastructure is insufficient, but I haven't
> > > got
> > > a good understanding of exactly what this entails. In particular,
> > > I
> > > was wondering if these requirements would be diminished at all if
> > > we
> > > only supported the initial sync. Just supporting the initial sync
> > > appears simplify a number of the ACL problems that we currently
> > > encounter (because we can pass through Samba and do our mappings)
> > > and seems to be a reasonable partial step towards implementing
> > > the
> > > overall protocol. Any ongoing replication could be made ad-hoc
> > > (with
> > > whatever mechanisms are currently being used), until the time we
> > > choose to implement the remainder.
> > > 
> > > Matthieu had at one point, a simple client to do the initial
> > > sync,
> > > so part of the work there is resolved and/or known. The question
> > > is
> > > the corresponding server functionality.
> > 
> > Can you point me at the client code just so I can take a quick
> > look ?
>