On Tuesday 05 November 2002 07:34 am, Martin Wilck wrote:
Am Die, 2002-11-05 um 13.43 schrieb Ove Kaaven:
Hmm, that may not be necessary. If Samba provides a RPC registration service then we wouldn't need another DCE RPC daemon like freedce's, we could just use Samba as our registration service (and if uses the port but doesn't have that feature yet, someone might be able to convince them to add it).
the only thing that's a little wierd about this is the prospect of creating a (conditional) dependency on Samba for wine... perhaps we want both (A) support from Samba and (B) our own service capable of listening on these ports and firing up rpcss as needed, under some user context(s).
Anyways, it's a bit of a project in-and-of-itself... it's important to think ahead, but there's no point in planning out the finer details until we have the basics implemented.
Good luck! From what I learned in my latest Samba inquiry, they have other things to worry about.
yes, I hear they are busy.
In any case you must make sure this is all properly separated, for GPL license issues.
yup. X11 (and LGPL?) code can be sublicensed by Samba under GPL, but it's a one-way-street, I guess. It's not worth driving ourselves nuts over these issues until the big picture is clearer.
It'd probably be worth looking into when the time comes.
I recommend approaching the Samba guys early so that they know this functionality is desired. Whoever wants to implement this must be prepared to dig into Samba hacking.
Martin
I think, ATM, it's premature to do much more than let them know what's going on on our end. It'd be somewhat unreasonable to expect the busy Samba hackers to code against our vaporware. Maybe I'll fire off some e-mails to them after work today... looks like more mailing list subscriptions for me... :(