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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter�9.�RPC Pluggable Modules</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SAMBA Developers Guide"><link rel="up" href="pt03.html" title="Part�III.�Samba Subsystems"><link rel="prev" href="pt03.html" title="Part�III.�Samba Subsystems"><link rel="next" href="vfs.html" title="Chapter�10.�VFS Modules"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter�9.�RPC Pluggable Modules</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pt03.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">Part�III.�Samba Subsystems</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="vfs.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="rpc-plugin"></a>Chapter�9.�RPC Pluggable Modules</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Anthony</span> <span class="orgname">IBM</span> <span class="surname">Liguori</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">IBM<br></span><div class="address"><p><code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:aliguor@us.ibm.com">aliguor@us.ibm.com</a>></code></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Jelmer</span> <span class="orgname">Samba Team</span> <span class="surname">Vernooij</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:jelmer@samba.org">jelmer@samba.org</a>></code></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">January 2003</p></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="rpc-plugin.html#id2558914">About</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="rpc-plugin.html#id2558929">General Overview</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2558914"></a>About</h2></div></div></div><p>
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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter�9.�RPC Pluggable Modules</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SAMBA Developers Guide"><link rel="up" href="pt03.html" title="Part�III.�Samba Subsystems"><link rel="prev" href="pt03.html" title="Part�III.�Samba Subsystems"><link rel="next" href="vfs.html" title="Chapter�10.�VFS Modules"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter�9.�RPC Pluggable Modules</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="pt03.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">Part�III.�Samba Subsystems</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="vfs.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" title="Chapter�9.�RPC Pluggable Modules"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="rpc-plugin"></a>Chapter�9.�RPC Pluggable Modules</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Anthony</span> <span class="surname">Liguori</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">IBM<br></span><div class="address"><p><code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:aliguor@us.ibm.com">aliguor@us.ibm.com</a>></code></p></div></div></div></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Jelmer</span> <span class="surname">Vernooij</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><code class="email"><<a class="email" href="mailto:jelmer@samba.org">jelmer@samba.org</a>></code></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">January 2003</p></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="rpc-plugin.html#id2564970">About</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect1"><a href="rpc-plugin.html#id2564986">General Overview</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="sect1" title="About"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id2564970"></a>About</h2></div></div></div><p>
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This document describes how to make use the new RPC Pluggable Modules features
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of Samba 3.0. This architecture was added to increase the maintainability of
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Samba allowing RPC Pipes to be worked on separately from the main CVS branch.
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The RPM architecture will also allow third-party vendors to add functionality
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to Samba through plug-ins.
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When an RPC call is sent to smbd, smbd tries to load a shared library by the
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name <code class="filename">librpc_<pipename>.so</code> to handle the call if
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it doesn't know how to handle the call internally. For instance, LSA calls