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5 <h2>Summer of Code Projects</h2>
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8 <p>The following is an outline of potential projects for those interested in
9 working on Samba through <a href="http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html">Google's
10 "Summer of Code"</a> program.</p>
12 <p>This is just a holding area for project ideas. The projects listed here
13 may be updated as developers refine a projet's outline. Questions about
14 Samba's participation in the program can be mailed to
15 <a href="mailto:summercode@samba.org">summercode@samba.org</a>.</p>
19 <tr><th>Samba 3</th></tr>
20 <tr><td>Implement support for EMF print jobs</td></tr>
21 <tr><td>Finish off portions of the PDC<->BDC SAM replication</td></tr>
22 <tr><td>Develop new VFS modules</td></tr>
23 <tr><td>Implement an interactive command line remote registry viewer</td></tr>
24 <tr><td>Implement administrative log events and log file parsing
25 utilities for smbd, nmbd, & winbindd</td></tr>
26 <tr><td>Rewrite smbclient using the libsmbclient API</td></tr>
27 <tr><td>Develop more client tools</td></tr>
28 <tr><td>Add MS-DFS support to libsmbclient</td></tr>
29 <tr><td>Create a tool for monitoring the health of a Samba server</td></tr>
30 <tr><td>Enhanced support for Microsoft user and group management tools</td></tr>
31 <tr><td>Implement a Samba 3 backend code generator for PIDL (from Samba 4)
32 in order to share IDL files between the two branches</td></tr>
33 <tr><td>(<b>added Jun 03</b>)Write a management framework in python for
34 configuring Samba servers, file shares, and printers. Add
35 CGI wrapper functions for a Samba/Apache/mod_python appliance</td></tr>
37 <tr><th>Samba 4</th></tr>
38 <tr><td>Implement the DsSync replication protocol and regression tests</td></tr>
39 <tr><td>Implement the spoolss printing RPCs and regression tests</td></tr>
40 <tr><td>Implement support for the CIFS unix extensions</td></tr>
41 <tr><td>Implement journaling support for the tdb database library
42 (code shared by Samba 3)</td></tr>
43 <tr><td>(<b>added Jun 05</b>) Implement a migration path from Samba 3.0 user
44 databases to Samba4. This could be offline (upgrade scripts) or
45 online (a backward compatability layer)</td></tr>
47 <tr><th>Linux CIFS FS</th></tr>
48 <tr><td>Create a GUI for managing Linux cifs mounts and
49 displaying /proc/fs/cifs statistics and mount status</td></tr>
50 <tr><td>Create a common uid mapping mechanism for Linux
51 nfs and cifs vfs clients, that can be configured to
52 remap, on a particular mount on the client, the uids
53 returned by the server to uids which would be valid on
54 the client (or to a default if such uid does not exist)</td></tr>
55 <tr><td>Finish the Linux cifs vfs change notification support
56 by completing the D_NOTIFY fcntl mapping to the FindNotify
57 mechanism supported by the CIFS protocol</td></tr>
59 <tr><th>Project Infrastructure</th></tr>
60 <tr><td>Develop a database back end for managing Samba support provider
61 information listed at http://www.samba.org/samba/support/</td></tr>
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