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author | cvs2svn Import User <samba-bugs@samba.org> | 1997-10-10 14:46:44 +0000 |
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committer | cvs2svn Import User <samba-bugs@samba.org> | 1997-10-10 14:46:44 +0000 |
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diff --git a/docs/textdocs/README.DCEDFS b/docs/textdocs/README.DCEDFS deleted file mode 100644 index da9bb2197da..00000000000 --- a/docs/textdocs/README.DCEDFS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,78 +0,0 @@ -Contributor: Jim Doyle <doyle@oec.com> -Date: 06-02-95 -Status: Current but needs updating - -Subject: Basic DCE/DFS Support for SAMBA 1.9.13 -============================================================================= - -Functionality: --------------- - - Per-instance authentication for DCE/DFS. - -Missing Functionality in this Implementation: ---------------------------------------------- - - * No automatic refresh of credentials - - To do so would not be that hard.. One could simply - stash the clear-text key in memory, spawn a key management - thread to wake up right before credentials expire and - refresh the login context. - - * No UNIX Signals support (SIGCLD, SIGPIPE, SIGHUP, SIGBUS, SIGSEGV) - - - There is no support for signal processing in Samba daemons - that need to authenticate with DCE. The explanation for this - is that the smbd is linked against thread-safe libraries in - order to be able to use DCE authentication mechanisms. - Because smbd uses signal() and fork(), it represents the - worst case scenario for DCE portability. In order - to properly support signals in a forked server environment, - some rework of smbd is needed in order to properly - construct, shutdown and reconstruct asynchronous signal - handling threads and synchronous signal traps across the - parent and child. I have not had contiguous time to work - on it, I expect it to be a weeks worth of work to cleanly - integrate thread-safe signal handing into the code and - test it. Until I can get to this task, I will leave it up - to someone adventurous enough to engineer it and negotiate - with Andrew to integrate the changes into the mainline branch. - - The lack of full signal support means that you cannot - rely upon SIGHUP-ing the parent daemon to refresh - the configuration data. Likewise, you cannot take advantage - of the builtin SIGBUS/SIGSEGV traps to diagnose failures. - You will have to halt Samba in order to make changes - and then have them take effect. - - The SMBD server as it stands is suitable to use if you - already have experience with configuring and running - SAMBA. - -Tested Platforms: ------------------ - - HP-UX 9.05 / HP-UX DCE 1.2.1 - AIX 3.2.5 / AIX DCE/6000 1.3 - DEC OSF-1 3.0 / DEC DCE 1.3 - -Building: ---------- - - - Uncomment the the appropriate block in the Makefile - for the platform you wish to build on. - - - Samples of Samba server configuration files for our - DFS environment are included in samples.dcedfs/ - - - -Bugs, Suggestions, etc.. --------------------------- - - Please post them to the mailing list. - That way I will see them and they will become part of - the archives so others can share the knowledge. - |