Hi Luke,
does this sound like a reasonable proposition - a mini SMB/wineserver protocol - for use for inter-communication between wine and samba in order to exchange named pipe traffic?
Well, I think we have to crawl before we can walk. I think it's more important that we have a working local named pipe implementation before we start thinking about SMBs from Wine to a remote machine. Usually, having a specific app in mind really helps drive an implementation, too. So, for instance, local message-mode named pipes will help Python run in Wine: cool. There are of course many apps that might want to do SMBs over named pipes.. but having a specific one we're trying to fix, along with someone motivated to get it working, helps. --Juan