The app I am trying to port with winelib makes heavy use of calls to the netapi32 DLL to check for permissions, etc. I just took a glance over the spec file and found it consists mainly of stubs. Is anybody (Mike?) currently working on netapi32, are there plans to implement larger parts, what are the main problems? I guess this points towards the general Wine/Samba integration that Mike has been talking about earlier... Grateful for any hints, Martin -- Martin Wilck Phone: +49 5251 8 15113 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fax: +49 5251 8 20409 Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 mailto:Martin.Wilck(a)Fujitsu-Siemens.com D-33106 Paderborn http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy
"Martin" == Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck(a)Fujitsu-Siemens.com> writes:
Martin> The app I am trying to port with winelib makes heavy use of Martin> calls to the netapi32 DLL to check for permissions, etc. Martin> I just took a glance over the spec file and found it consists Martin> mainly of stubs. Martin> Is anybody (Mike?) currently working on netapi32, are there Martin> plans to implement larger parts, what are the main problems? Martin> I guess this points towards the general Wine/Samba integration Martin> that Mike has been talking about earlier... In my understanding, netapi only chunks down to lower lever driver, like netbios etc. If the driver of your application end in doing real hardware access or strange protocolls, things will get fishy... Bye -- Uwe Bonnes bon(a)elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
Am Mon, 2002-09-16 um 18.59 schrieb Uwe Bonnes:
In my understanding, netapi only chunks down to lower lever driver, like netbios etc. If the driver of your application end in doing real hardware access or strange protocolls, things will get fishy...
What my app wants is mostly network authorization issues, i.e. calls like NetLocalGroupGetMembers(), NetUserGetLocalGroups(), etc. Yes I assume this will usually work through Netbios (that's why I think it may go in the Samba direction), but I'm not quite sure yet. I don't think it's about direct hardware access & strange protocols. Martin -- Martin Wilck Phone: +49 5251 8 15113 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fax: +49 5251 8 20409 Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 mailto:Martin.Wilck(a)Fujitsu-Siemens.com D-33106 Paderborn http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy
--- Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck(a)fujitsu-siemens.com> wrote:
The app I am trying to port with winelib makes heavy use of calls to the netapi32 DLL to check for permissions, etc.
I just took a glance over the spec file and found it consists mainly of stubs.
Is anybody (Mike?) currently working on netapi32, are there plans to implement larger parts, what are the main problems?
I guess this points towards the general Wine/Samba integration that Mike has been talking about earlier...
I'm now working to implement some netapi32 calls. My implementations use information, provided by Wine or give some dummy values. Do you think this will be enough for your application? You can give me the list of calls your application uses - I'll give preference to implementing them. Sure the right approach would be to integrate it with Samba but I was not going to do it right now. Andriy, Boston, MA, USA As an employee of an oil company, let me assure you that nothing, and I mean NOTHING scares a big company more than a noisy, smelly, obnoxious, disaffected pressure group. Now go away and chain yourself to someone important's front door. TheRegister. Unknown __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com
Am Mon, 2002-09-16 um 20.43 schrieb Andriy Palamarchuk:
I'm now working to implement some netapi32 calls. My implementations use information, provided by Wine or give some dummy values. Do you think this will be enough for your application?
Hmm - it's about identification and access right verification. Currently I rather tend to replace all this by "native unix" verification. I actually don't think it's a good idea for my app to bypass the Unix system. In this context, one idea would be to simply route requests like these to Unix services like PAM. There may even be a samba Authorization service for PAM installed. That way it might actually be possible to map authorization issues like this correctly from wine to e.g. a PDC, but through the native Unix interface, and without creating a Samba+Wine "monster" app. This is far future of course. What do you think?
You can give me the list of calls your application uses - I'll give preference to implementing them.
I'll try to make a list. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Wilck Phone: +49 5251 8 15113 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fax: +49 5251 8 20409 Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 mailto:Martin.Wilck(a)Fujitsu-Siemens.com D-33106 Paderborn http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy
--- Martin Wilck <Martin.Wilck(a)fujitsu-siemens.com> wrote:
In this context, one idea would be to simply route requests like these to Unix services like PAM. There may even be a samba Authorization service for PAM installed. That way it might actually be possible to map authorization issues like this correctly from wine to e.g. a PDC, but through the native Unix interface, and without creating a Samba+Wine "monster" app. This is far future of course.
What do you think?
Agree with your idea. I'll start to look into it later. Andriy Boston, MA As an employee of an oil company, let me assure you that nothing, and I mean NOTHING scares a big company more than a noisy, smelly, obnoxious, disaffected pressure group. Now go away and chain yourself to someone important's front door. TheRegister. Unknown __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com
Am Die, 2002-09-17 um 14.47 schrieb Andriy Palamarchuk:
Agree with your idea. I'll start to look into it later.
With winbind running (and the NSS switch properly configured), you can use standard glibc calls like getpwnam() and they'll return what you want. Great stuff! Martin -- Martin Wilck Phone: +49 5251 8 15113 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fax: +49 5251 8 20409 Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 mailto:Martin.Wilck(a)Fujitsu-Siemens.com D-33106 Paderborn http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy
Am Mon, 2002-09-16 um 20.43 schrieb Andriy Palamarchuk:
Sure the right approach would be to integrate it with Samba but I was not going to do it right now.
As I said in another message, I think the Samba component (at least for authentication issues) should be independent of wine and accessed e.g. through PAM. That would be cleaner and much easier, given that pam_winbind is available on recent samba releases. Martin -- Martin Wilck Phone: +49 5251 8 15113 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fax: +49 5251 8 20409 Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 mailto:Martin.Wilck(a)Fujitsu-Siemens.com D-33106 Paderborn http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy
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