libmsrpc [WAS Re: [Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools

[Beast]

Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Beast wrote:
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>>>The XMLrpc piece would require both client and server piece.
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>>That just my bare example to use 'standard' protocol instead 
>>of proprietary protocol.
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> Understood.  But if we document and implement the protocol
> it becomes more open.  There are no IP issues that prevent
> us from using MS-RPC.

Jerry,

I was just following the samba-technical discussion, aparently there was 
a discussion to put embeded webserver in samba4. IMHO its not a good 
solutions. Samba team is only 'responsible' to deliver library for 
accessing samba services, need no worry about the front end. Some 
brilliant people outhere will have more time than the samba team to 
develop nice GUI for samba  ;-)

So, libmsrpc is the right directions (IMHO).

Logging:
Samba log is not parser friendly file and not (much) useful for 
performance monitoring, if it can gives info as in maillog or httpd.log 
I'm sure somebody will write program to make a report of it.



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