[Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools

[Ilia Chipitsine]

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> Beast wrote:
>> Hi all,
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>> I have tried to write management tools for samba, but it seems there's
>> no standard way provided by Samba to change its configuration or modify
>> users account other than direct modify the config file and or database
>> backend. This make many tools less portable because it depends on the
>> backend of samba.
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>> There might be a windows rpc call (use by usrmgr.exe and
>> svrmgr.exe), is it the 'standard' way to access samba?
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> There's a lot of rpc calls available.  These will get you so
> far.  I have considered making smb.conf remotely available via the
> registry API but its still in the thought stage.  Would that be
> something that people would want ?
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> Something like
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> [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration]
> [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\global]
> [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\homes]
> [HKLM\Software\Samba.org\Configuration\share1]
> ...

so, if this will be implemented, I can connect with registry editing tools 
and remotely manage configuration ?

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> And then editable valuename/data pairs for parameters.
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> cheers, jerry
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