Samba Subsystems

Table of Contents

10. RPC Pluggable Modules

About

General Overview

11. VFS Modules

The Samba (Posix) VFS layer

The general interface

Possible VFS operation layers

The Interaction between the Samba VFS subsystem and the modules

Initialization and registration

How the Modules handle per connection data

Upgrading to the New VFS Interface

Upgrading from 2.2.* and 3.0aplha modules

Some Notes

Implement TRANSPARENT functions

Implement OPAQUE functions

12. The registry subsystem

Planned backends

Data structures

External interface

Utility functions

Writing backends

Memory allocation

13. The smb.conf file

Lexical Analysis

Handling of Whitespace

Handling of Line Continuation

Line Continuation Quirks

Syntax

About params.c

14. Samba WINS Internals

WINS Failover

15. LanMan and NT Password Encryption

Introduction

How does it work?

The smbpasswd file