pidl-generated code now in Samba3

meta = {'category': samba, 'date': Tue 11 October 2005}

The first autogenerated RPC interface (DFS) is now in SVN, thanks to Jeremy. Hopefully the rest will follow soon.

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Pidl now in CPAN

meta = {'category': samba, 'date': Wed 21 September 2005}

Encouraged by the fact that ethereal now uses pidl as part of its’ standard build, I tried to upload Pidl as a package to CPAN today. Turned out to be much easier to become a perl developer then to become a Debian developer… :-)

More information is available at Pidl at CPAN.

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More Samba4 progress - pidl2, libkdc and SWAT

meta = {'category': samba, 'date': Thu 26 May 2005}

A lot has happened in the Samba4 world over the last week.

Andrew Bartlett has got a simple domain join to a Samba DC using kerberos working using a hacked-up version of Heimdal kerberos. He’s now looking at the best way of doing a KDC for Samba4 - either writing one from scratch, borrowing one from one of the existing open source implementations or borrowing parts of one of the existing ones (a “libkdc”). There’s been some heated discussion about this on the related mailing lists.

I have merged pidl2 (my rewrite of pidl, our IDL compiler) into the main Samba4 SVN branch. This is something I have been working on for the past 2 months.

Tridge has started working on Samba 4’s internal web server, which will be used for the next generation of SWAT. The webserver supports (a subset of) javascript on the server-side scripting, thru the AppWeb Embedded JavaScript library.

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Rewrite progressing

meta = {'category': samba, 'date': Thu 16 September 2004}

Finally, the rewrite of the registry subsystem in Samba 4 is starting to finish off. I changed some major things after the initial version:

• Changed from typedefs back to structs, like we do in the rest of Samba 4 (e.g. struct registry_key instead of REG_KEY.
• Pass TALLOC_CTX‘s around for memory allocation. No longer give every key or value it’s own TALLOC_CTX.
• A registry context is nothing but a collection of hives that all have their own root key. In the previous version, there was one registry context with multiple roots. (this makes the backend code much, much simpler)

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