Re: Interface-based security?
[local] means no marshaling support, so it won't do. All local
clients won't have access either.
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"Brian Muth" <bmuth@mvps.org> wrote in message
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"jesse" <jessegarbage@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I want to create a DCOM server that allows some users to call certain
methods, and other users to call other methods. I will settle for a
compromise or workaround, but I'd like to know what others would do
here. Here's the situation:
I have a COM object hosted in a service. It serves as a database--the
client applications need to access about 40 GB of data at random, speed
is of the essence. The service runs on a box that has over 100 GB of
memory, so this works. The com object uses the
DECLARE_CLASSFACTORY_SINGLETON() macro, so all clients are talking to
the same instance. One client modifies/writes data, other clients only
read data. The object serves the client applications perfectly. Since
this all runs on a secure machine, remote access is disabled in DCOM
config, and that's that.
This has all been working perfectly until now. Now I need other
machines to be able to read data from this server. Ideally, I'd like
to break off methods like WriteData() into a separate interface, called
IDataWriter and have that interface not accessible from the remote
clients.
I've considered overriding QueryInterface and return E_FAIL if the
client is remote, but I don't know how to determine if it's remote or
local. Also, I'm not sure if this is a safe approach.
Any suggestions?
You can mark the methods or interfaces that you don't want to be called
remotely with the local attribute:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/midl/midl/local.asp
Remaining methods could be called remotely if you then enabled DCOM.
Does this meet your goals?
Brian
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