Re: Wine Tasklist (UNC)

[Mike McCormack]

Hi Francois,

I think the best way to handle UNC pathes is to do it properly; Wine
should talk SMB/NBT directly to other machines on the network, not
through Linux's VFS layer.

This approach would give high level of flexability to Wine. We could:

* support NetDDE and DCOM with a common code base
* use Windows file permissions and security properly
* support unicode share names properly
* support named pipes, etc across the network
* eliminate SMB<->VFS<->SMB problems eg. parsing /etc/fstab

There's three options:
1) write our own SMB code (wineserver talks NetBIOS/SMB)
   i have a short snippet of code to resolve NetBIOS names in
CreateFile, but that is only the beginning of the effort.

2) link with a LGPL'ed CIFS implementation.
   http://www.ubiqx.org/libcifs/ (very incomplete, but maybe
    possible later, may still have threading issues)

3) get Samba to provide us with a Unix domain socket to talk with.
(SambaTNG looks like the best bet there.)

i have experimented with linking Wine to samba's libsmbclient and use
it to open files. That works (i have a test patch), has threading and
licensing issues (it's GPL).

This would be alot of work, but i think it's the only way to do it
properly.

Mike
> - UNC path handling
> - for drives '\.\e:', devices
> - for network paths
> - there's been a patch related to this recently but I believe it

does
> not cover all cases
> - integrate with Samba to handle network UNC paths
> - provide a way to mount/unmount drives at runtime, especially 
> network drives. One should be able to disable this in the

config
>  file (for security reasons).
> - Support for 'persistent' mounts... will require modifying the

way w
>  specify which drives are mounted where.
> - provide an applet to mount/unmount drives while Wine is

running.

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Wine Tasklist (UNC)

[Andreas Mohr]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:08:46PM +1000, Mike McCormack wrote:
> Hi Francois,
>
> I think the best way to handle UNC pathes is to do it properly; Wine
> should talk SMB/NBT directly to other machines on the network, not
> through Linux's VFS layer.
>
> This approach would give high level of flexability to Wine. We could:

Yep. Actually I've never understood why one would go through mount points
for *dynamic* host paths !
In short: do it once, do it *right*.
Don't go for a weak compromise.
That's why I'm strongly in favour of high Samba integration.
Wine really needs this functionality, AFAICS.