On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 19:08 -0800, Nagendra S wrote:> Hello,
>
> I've written a BSD application that has to do many parallel CIFS
> authentications, SID to name, and name to SID operations. It was written
> using smbclient application as an example and links against libsmb. The
> problem is that it doesn't seem possible to send a large number of
parallel
> operations to the domain controller using the samba libraries, unless I
fork
> a lot of processes, which I cannot easily do. Even worse, if I send a long
> running operation to the DC, all other operations block behind it.
>
> Is there code in Samba to do asynchronous communications to the DC? If not
> in 3.21c, will this be available in v4 and when? Am I just missing
> something?
Samba4 has a demonstration of parallel sid2name and name2sid operations
in the RPC-LSA torture test. However, parallel authentication isn't
possible, due to limitations on the windows server side (it dumps the
connection...).
Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc. http://redhat.com
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