[Samba] Samba interface for administrative tools

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 09:24:58AM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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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.

Indeed. It would be best if the management tools ask smbd to
do things - smbd knows what state it is in, and when it's
safe. Also it allows us to modify the back-end formats without
breaking the front end tools.

Jeremy.