Re: project on samba+gnu/hurd

[Patrick Strasser]

Hello Aandvid!

anandvid schrieb:

>> "the task doesn't mean a reimplementation of samba but
>> writing the smbfs filesystem like Linux has.  The advantage of the Hurd
>> above linux in this case is that you can use userspace libraries.Just
>> use libsmbclient for the network communication." with kind instru ctions
>> from Mr. Marco Gerards.
>
> can anybody plz describe it in detail because
> we are supposed to finish our project in 2 months.

Where to start.. What exactly do you want to know? What is unclear for 
you? Be as specific as possible, it makes us a lot easier to give you a 
good answer.

> right now we are
> reading the samba documentation and a few things about hurd.

That's a good start.
You should also do the
'Hurd Hacking Guide' by Wolfgang Jaehrling
http://www.8ung.at/shell/guide.html

Also have a look at what smbtree from the samba distribution does [mind 
the newline]:
http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba/source/utils/smbtree.c?rev=1.23&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

Last time I had a look at Samba 3.0 it seemed to have everything you 
need to connect it with the translators framwork. At a quick shot it 
didn't compile through the debian buidl system due to unresolvable 
dependencies. I think this can be worked arround.
Of course it would be nice just to use the vanilla library for the 
translator. This would proof the translator concept.

Patrick