Andrew,

   Since Bill is out of office, I have taken over the ownership of this case.  
I have been actively working on this case.   I will update you as soon as I 
have any new status.

   Thanks for your patience. 

Hongwei


-----Original Message-----
From: cifs-protocol-boun...@cifs.org [mailto:cifs-protocol-boun...@cifs.org] On 
Behalf Of Andrew Bartlett
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 7:46 PM
To: Interoperability Documentation Help
Cc: MSSolve Case Email; cifs-proto...@samba.org; Bill Wesse
Subject: Re: [cifs-protocol] [REG:110062452298172] Re: Text-file Schema for all 
of 2000-2008R2

On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 11:43 +0000, Bill Wesse wrote:
> Resending the DumpSchema.cmd(.txt) file; I broke the earlier one during an 
> edit (deleted a label ':Perform'). Sorry.

Dochelp.

I was working on this with Bill, but I need to bump this a long a little, and 
to clarify things a bit more:

It is great having commands to dump the schema - we can write such commands 
easily, and use those to confirm that the schema we supply to our users is 
correct.  Indeed, such commands have shown that we have not been supplied 
correct schema in the past.

However, what I need isn't tools to extract schema from AD servers, but the 
actual schema, provided by Microsoft to us under the agreed licence.
This makes it unambiguous that we can redistribute the result. 

Therefore, we do require the schema from the WSPP documentation, we require it 
in a format that is suitable for use in creation of an interoperable 
implementation, we need is under the licence, and we require that it is 100% 
correct. 

If we cannot get those assurances, we have two problems:  We waste an 
inordinate amount of time fixing bugs that should never have occurred (surely 
the docs were generated with tools such as you supplied in your mail), and we 
loose confidence that any update to the schema or a new revision is correct. 

Have you had any luck securing those assurances from the product group?
It seems to have taken quite some time, for something that should be nothing 
more than providing an automated extract. 

Thankyou, 

Andrew Bartlett
-- 
Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.

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