Samba Basics

Table of Contents

3. Samba Architecture

Introduction

Multithreading and Samba

Threading smbd

Threading nmbd

nbmd Design

4. The samba DEBUG system

New Output Syntax

The DEBUG() Macro

The DEBUGADD() Macro

The DEBUGLVL() Macro

New Functions

dbgtext()

dbghdr()

format_debug_text()

5. Samba Internals

Character Handling

The new functions

Macros in byteorder.h

CVAL(buf,pos)

PVAL(buf,pos)

SCVAL(buf,pos,val)

SVAL(buf,pos)

IVAL(buf,pos)

SVALS(buf,pos)

IVALS(buf,pos)

SSVAL(buf,pos,val)

SIVAL(buf,pos,val)

SSVALS(buf,pos,val)

SIVALS(buf,pos,val)

RSVAL(buf,pos)

RIVAL(buf,pos)

RSSVAL(buf,pos,val)

RSIVAL(buf,pos,val)

LAN Manager Samba API

Parameters

Return value

Code character table

6. Coding Suggestions

7. Contributing code

8. Modules

Advantages

Loading modules

Static modules

Shared modules

Writing modules

Static/Shared selection in configure.in