What I need (was Re: Using winbind with Wine)

First of all thanks everybody for the feedback. It seems that Wine/Samba integration will not be a solution for general Wine RPC, at least not in the short term. However I have determined the functionality I need and I think most of it can be implemented on top of existing winbind functionality as I originally intended. These are the functions I need: LogonUser(ADVAPI32) - can be done through pam_winbind to authenticate against PDC NetGroupGetUsers - Can be implemented with nss_winbind's getgrent() NetGroupGetInfo - Also getgrent() (?) NetLocalGroupGetMembers - Hmm - I don't think Windows' local/global group distinction makes sense on Unix - windbind looks for global groups, I suppose? NetGetDCName - Get name of primary domain controller - seems to be the most difficult part. Could be solved by simply looking it up in the Samba config file. This approach means that the respective functions are not really carried out as Windows RPCs - for example the "servername" argument to these functions will be ignored because I cannot tell winbind on which server to execute its RPC. Even if wine had a fully-fledged RPC implementation I doubt that would be reasonable to implement these functions on top of that, because groups and users really need to be mapped to their Unix equivalents. Comments welcome! Martin Martin Wilck Phone: +49 5251 8 15113 Fujitsu Siemens Computers Fax: +49 5251 8 20409 Heinz-Nixdorf-Ring 1 mailto:[email protected] D-33106 Paderborn http://www.fujitsu-siemens.com/primergy