Service Control Manager, Plug and Pray, SMB and RPC

[Steven Edwards]

Hi,
Am I correct in understanding we are going to need a real rpc implementation to correctly
support
Plug and Play as well as Services, DCOM and SMB related stuff? I know the Wine DCOM and
Service
Code does everything over named pipes on the local system but I assume we want to do
things
"properly". Should we look at doing a mingw build of FreeDCE or the DEC-RPC? I
am happy to try and
help import any code if it will help.

Thanks
Steven



		
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[ea]

Steven Edwards wrote:

>  Hi,
> Am I correct in understanding we are going to need a real rpc implementation to correctly
> support
> Plug and Play as well as Services, DCOM and SMB related stuff? I know the Wine DCOM and
> Service
> Code does everything over named pipes on the local system but I assume we want to do
> things
> "properly". Should we look at doing a mingw build of FreeDCE or the DEC-RPC? I
> am happy to try and
> help import any code if it will help.
>   
>  
It may be a correct and safe pro tempore solution, considering how 
complex RPC is, but keep in mind that same node calls use LPC, to avoid 
RPC overhead. This again leads to implement LPC with correct semantics, 
which is a complex task too.

Emanuele

[Eric Kohl]

Steven Edwards wrote:
>   Hi,
>  Am I correct in understanding we are going to need a real rpc implementation to correctly
> support
>  Plug and Play as well as Services, DCOM and SMB related stuff? I know the Wine DCOM and
> Service
>  Code does everything over named pipes on the local system but I assume we want to do
> things
>  "properly". Should we look at doing a mingw build of FreeDCE or the DEC-RPC? I
> am happy to try and
>  help import any code if it will help. 
IMHO, adding missing features to WIDL and fixing resulting bugs in 
rpcrt4 is much more important right now. Access to remote machines, new 
transports (tcp, udp, http, etc.) and a dynamic endpoint mapper (aka 
rpcss) is not that important.

Regards,
Eric