Windows networking API

FROM : Robert Claeson
DATE : Tue Mar 25 16:41:09 2008

Is there an API/framework to interface with the SMB/Samba/Windows 
networking functionality of OS X? More specifically, I need to:

* Find the Active Directory domain (or Windows workgroup name if not 
in an AD network)
* Ensure that the OS X user is authenticated via AD (if available)

As you can probably tell, I'm not too up to date on what Windows can 
really do these days or even the details of how they work. I'm porting 
a piece of system software from Windows that is very well integrated 
with Active Directory and all those management features that Windows 
offers and am trying to get the feature level of the OS X port on an 
equal footing. I have very little Windows programming experience, 
being a Nextstep/Openstep/OS X and Unix developer since the beginning 
of days.