Wine and industrial communication like OPC

[Mike Hearn]

> Samba has already documented the protocol and if it wasn't for licensing 
> issues it would be very easy to port it into Wine.

Well, how easy is very easy? What I meant is that it's unlikely to be 
something you could do quickly unless you were familiar with the code in 
question.

It'd be a tragedy to reimplement all that of that code because of GPL vs 
LGPL concerns. I guess they can't just add an exception clause without 
consulting every single one of their contributors.

Given the ports problem, maybe the solution is just to have smbd expose 
an interface that lets you manage named pipe connections through it. Not 
thought about this problem much though.

> I think you can just use UNC paths. The same applies for mailslots too 
> IIRC.

I suppose that makes sense, yes.