As a temporary solution we could try creating a usable installer for this build of samba and offer to download it with rapps.
ReactOS Development List <ros-dev@reactos.org> wrote on Tue, February 21st, 2017, 6:16 AM: > May be it is better to temporarily add Samba itself to ReactOS? It is not > that simple to install it for average user. > > I suggest add it at least as downloadable module, the same way we do with > gecko > > 21.02.2017, 05:11, "Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO" <hermes.belu...@sfr.fr>: > He recently (since January) restarted to play with it. > > De : Ros-dev [mailto:ros-dev-boun...@reactos.org] De la part de Zachary Gorden > Envoyé : mardi 21 février 2017 03:04 > À : ReactOS Development List > Objet : Re: [ros-dev] Office (Excel, Word...) 2010 on ReactOS > > Is Samuel actually still actively working on NTLM? I thought that branch of > his was pretty old. Might be something to consider a dev contract for. > > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO <hermes.belu...@sfr.fr> > wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Today I was finally able to finish the installation of Office 2010 in > ReactOS, using as a temporary measure the Wine’s NTLM layer that calls into > the ntlm_auth utility of Samba. This was done while Samuel is completing his > NTLM implementation. > As this wine layer is here running on ReactOS, few modifications were > needed, and I also needed to find a Windows build of Samba. I’ve found one, > by chance, at http://smithii.com/samba . Then, using ReactOS revision 73868 > (or later), and using this version of Samba, the Office installation > finishes (reminder: the problem was due to the fact the installer needed > NTLM to communicate with the “Office Software Platform Service”, > OSPPSVC.EXE). We are now able to use Excel, Word, … on ReactOS, as shown in > this picture: > http://i.imgur.com/fLEwoVI.png > > There are now 2 main problems: > - NTLM should be correctly implemented; > - There are an awful lot of drawing problems with Office 2010 applications > (similar to those of Office 2007 apps): for example, dragging the graph > downwards shows his frame going upwards; there are many black regions that > show up, etc...: It seems we have problems in coordinate frames. And other > problems too. Also, we have some mouse capture problems: if you try to > redimension the windows the normal way (bring mouse cursor on top of the > border, left-click-maintained, move mouse, release left button), and then > move the mouse inside the window, it continues to be redimensioned... > As a result, I took ~=15 minutes to make this simple trivial picture above, > almost all the time taken to fight against window dimensioning & the drawing > problems. > > But anyways, enjoy ! > > This will be part of my next blog report. > > Cheers, > Hermès > > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev > > > > > > ,_______________________________________________ > Ros-dev mailing list > Ros-dev@reactos.org > http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
