[Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools

[Ilia Chipitsine]

>> Something like
>>
>> [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 ?
>
> Yup that was my idea.  Each subtree of Samba's registry can
> define it's own security descriptor access check.  So assuming
> that the user meets the appropriate securirt checks, setting a
> valuename/data pair would set the 'parameter = value' option
> for that section (which matches the registru value's parent
> key).
>
> This is a good ways out right now.  But if there is sufficient
> interest in this kind of thing, I'm willing to work on it.

nice idea.

I heard that libmsrpc is under heavy development now, am I right that
such library also allows creating an opposite tool, such as unix command 
line utility for remote registry management ? if so, I'll take a closer 
look at it, I need such utility! :-)

>
>
> cheers, jerry
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