Mandriva Project

Samba/OpenChange modules for MBS

Resources and Bibliography

Wiki start: [http://projects.mandriva.org/projects/mmc/wiki/Start]
MDS development mailing-list archives: [https://lists.mandriva.com/wws/arc/mds-devel/]
MDS development: [http://projects.mandriva.org/projects/mmc/wiki/MDS_Development]
MMC development: [http://mandriva-management-console.readthedocs.org/en/latest/]

Core development resources

Mandriva MBS module

Mandriva MBS is the SMB Mandriva product. From a global perspective, it is similar to Zentyal. It provides a Linux distribution with a web-based configuration and administration interface and integrates a mechanism of plugins to extend the capabilities of the default installation. Their applications/modules are however distributed through an application store, similar to Apple, Google, or Samsung store.

Architecture

General Overview

The MBS product is architectured around LDAP. It is the link between modules and it powers Mandriva module integration, primarily between user/groups, mail and samba.

The core distribution is installed through a graphical interface
The mandriva server setup (MSS) is installing and configuring the core modules (shipped by default). It is done through a specific web interface running on https://IP:8000
The dashboard - MMC Agent is running on https://IP and provide service management and post-install configurations

The components used to currently deploy Samba3 module in Mandriva are:

mmc-web-samba : SAMBA module for the MMC web interface
python-mmc-samba : Mandriva Management Console SAMBA plugin

Implementation

Backend - Python module

Runs on 127.0.0.1:7080

Mandriva provides a python based application called mmc-agent. It is powered by Django framework and listens for XML-RPC requests. These requests are turned into actions and the application implements backend code such as modification of configuration file, service management (start/stop/restart/reload), services actions, etc.

python /usr/sbin/mmc-agent

configuration file: /etc/mmc/agent/config.ini
log file: /var/log/mmc/mmc-agent.log
python class file: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mmc/agent.py

This service is responsible for loading the plugins (PluginManager).

This is an internal class which just looks into the directory where plugins are installed and look for __init__.py for each of them:

/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mmc/plugins/*/__init__.py

It runs the loadPlugins() method which will call the activate() method from the plugin

DEBUG   Trying to load module samba4
DEBUG   Module samba4 loaded
INFO    Plugin samba4 loaded, version: 1.0.0

Frontend: PHP

Samba4

Samba4 is not packaged as part of MBS 1.0 but is available as a package for mageia cauldron (https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Cauldron) and available at the following URL:

http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/samba4/

zentyal / mandriva