Paul is definitely a very smart guy and something of a programming hero of mine. I did have the good fortune to have dinner with him once, although I think I was too shy to really ask him anything.
The DCE library “surprisingly distributed by Apple” is used by their CIFS server and NetLogon daemon. From memory, it originally came from the OSF DCE RPC source code drop, which I then slightly modernised for use in XAD (the first Active Directory-compatible domain controller replacement, which became Domain Services for Windows at Novell), and then found its way to Apple via Likewise.
The DCE library “surprisingly distributed by Apple” is used by their CIFS server and NetLogon daemon. From memory, it originally came from the OSF DCE RPC source code drop, which I then slightly modernised for use in XAD (the first Active Directory-compatible domain controller replacement, which became Domain Services for Windows at Novell), and then found its way to Apple via Likewise.