Wine & MS protocol help?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Oct 23 17:27:37 CDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 11:25 -0600, Brian Vincent wrote:
> I thought someone might have posted this by now.  Andrew Bartlet wrote
> this:
> 
> http://people.samba.org/people/abartlet/a-year-since-microsofts-appeal-failed.html
> 
> quote:
> 
> "Microsoft has also answered dozens of documentation queries on the
> cifs-protocol mailing list and in private email from PFIF members (the
> PFIF is the umbrella organization that signed the WSPP agreement on
> behalf of the Samba Team)."
> 
> "However, the WSPP program and Microsoft's new protocol documentation
> is not just about 'Samba' things - the protocols covered are any that
> a windows client uses to talk to a windows server. Many other Free
> Software projects can and should take advantage of the new
> documentation and clarification process."
> 
> "In might be reasonable to ask why Microsoft is putting such a strong
> effort into making the WSPP agreement a success. Obviously the ongoing
> EU legal appeal regarding the fines levied against Microsoft by the EU
> could be a motivating factor, but regardless of that motivation the
> individual engineers we are working with are responding with
> enthusiasm."
> 
> Reading on, it seems Samba got access to internal MS conformance tests
> among other things.  It seems like it's probably worth a few emails
> the Andrew for details and a few calls to Microsoft to see if there's
> anything that might help out with things besides CIFS.

The trick is to find protocols in this list:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197979.aspx

The other protocols you can access the 'community support' for (as Kai
Blin has found out on the forums), but you can't do the e-mail or phone
based stuff.

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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