[Samba] does SMB run over DCOM ?

2004-09-16 Thread Mario de Sousa


 Hi all,

 OPC is a standard that specifies a collection of DCOM interfaces
heavely used in the industrial automation domain.
(http://www.opcfoundation.org)

 I would like to access these OPC objects that run in Windows from Linux
computers, using the DCOM framework.

 Instead of implementing DCOM from scratch for Linux, I was considering
'stealing' some code off the SAMBA project relating to the DCOM rpc
stuff.

 Could anybody please confirm that SMB really does run over DCOM, in
other words, does the SAMBA code include some kind of implementation of
the DCOM protocols?

 If so, could you give me sugestions on how I could go about this? Where
can I get some info regarding the internal functions that I need to call
to make DCOM rpc invocations?

 At the moment I was considering starting off by extending the rpcclient
utility and using some of the already implemented services as a guide. I
have been browsing this code, nevertheless, some of the details still
escape me. For example, what is a pipe, and what do the pipe_idx
variables contain?


 Any help would be higly apreciated!



   Thanks in advance,


Mario de Sousa

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Re: [Samba] does SMB run over DCOM ?

2004-09-16 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Hi,

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 04:11:55PM +0100, Mario de Sousa wrote about '[Samba] does SMB 
run over DCOM ?':
  OPC is a standard that specifies a collection of DCOM interfaces
 heavely used in the industrial automation domain.
 (http://www.opcfoundation.org)

  I would like to access these OPC objects that run in Windows from Linux
 computers, using the DCOM framework.

  Instead of implementing DCOM from scratch for Linux, I was considering
 'stealing' some code off the SAMBA project relating to the DCOM rpc
 stuff.

  Could anybody please confirm that SMB really does run over DCOM, in
 other words, does the SAMBA code include some kind of implementation of
 the DCOM protocols?
It is the other way around. DCOM runs over DCE/RPC, which /can/ run
over SMB. I have been working on an initial implementation of DCOM in
Samba4. It is still in the initial phase of development (some RPC
stuff is there), but let me know if you're interested in helping out.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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