Kai asked:
Is there a use case for remote named pipes?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q238949/ shows that SQL Server supports named pipes as an access method. Some apps or sites might assume that works, and not be able to use TCP/IP for this.
Google finds at least three examples of people wanting to used named pipes in previous wine threads:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/msg/06fbfdfb53... "I'm trying to run a Delphi application on Wine. The application uses BDE to talk to a MSSQL server, but database communication does not work. Enable debugging i see this error message: warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"SRVCAF1\pipe\sql\query" not found in ...dosdevices/unc warn:ntdll:NtCreateFile L"\??\UNC\SRVCAF1\pipe\sql\query" not found (c000003a) warn:file:CreateFileW Unable to create file L"\\SRVCAF1\pipe\sql\ \query" (status c000003a) Is this UNC pipe supposed to work on Wine? " (I think you even replied to that thread :-)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/msg/e7323dfa94...
"I am trying to connect a client with named pipes to a remote server. Using the kernel32 function CreateFile I get the folling message: fixme:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name UNC name L"\??\UNC\192.168.1.157\pipe\Archiv\Server" not supported I am using Wine20040505. Is the anybody out there who can help? To be frank, I am a rooky using wine an Linux, but... ;o) "
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/msg/a3d22d752d... "[Outlook seems to use a named pipe to connect to Exchange: fixme:win32:WaitNamedPipeA \EXCH_CTL2\pipe\epmapper 0x00000000 "]
So, there you have it. Databases, Microsoft Exchange, and the like seem to like using remote named pipes. - Dan