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+This document describes how to make use the new RPC Pluggable Modules features +of Samba 3.0. This architecture was added to increase the maintainability of +Samba allowing RPC Pipes to be worked on separately from the main CVS branch. +The RPM architecture will also allow third-party vendors to add functionality +to Samba through plug-ins. +
+When an RPC call is sent to smbd, smbd tries to load a shared library by the
+name librpc_<pipename>.so to handle the call if
+it doesn't know how to handle the call internally. For instance, LSA calls
+are handled by librpc_lsass.so..
+These shared libraries should be located in the <sambaroot>/lib/rpc. smbd then attempts to call the init_module function within
+the shared library. Check the chapter on modules for more information.
+
+In the init_module function, the library should call +rpc_pipe_register_commands(). This function takes the following arguments: +
+NTSTATUS rpc_pipe_register_commands(int version, const char *clnt, const char *srv, + const struct api_struct *cmds, int size); +
Version number of the RPC interface. Use the define SMB_RPC_INTERFACE_VERSION for this +argument.
the Client name of the named pipe
the Server name of the named pipe
a list of api_structs that map RPC ordinal numbers to function calls
the number of api_structs contained in cmds
+See rpc_server/srv_reg.c and rpc_server/srv_reg_nt.c for a small example of +how to use this library. +