Kai asked: > Is there a use case for remote named pipes? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q238949/ shows that SQL Server supports named pipes as an access method. Some apps or sites might assume that works, and not be able to use TCP/IP for this.
Google finds at least three examples of people wanting to used named pipes in previous wine threads: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/msg/06fbfdfb53a28cbd "I'm trying to run a Delphi application on Wine. The application uses BDE to talk to a MSSQL server, but database communication does not work. Enable debugging i see this error message: warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"SRVCAF1\\pipe\\sql\\query" not found in ...dosdevices/unc warn:ntdll:NtCreateFile L"\\??\\UNC\\SRVCAF1\\pipe\\sql\\query" not found (c000003a) warn:file:CreateFileW Unable to create file L"\\\\SRVCAF1\\pipe\\sql\ \query" (status c000003a) Is this UNC pipe supposed to work on Wine? " (I think you even replied to that thread :-) http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/msg/e7323dfa94cf3221 "I am trying to connect a client with named pipes to a remote server. Using the kernel32 function CreateFile I get the folling message: fixme:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name UNC name L"\\??\\UNC\\192.168.1.157\\pipe\\Archiv\\Server" not supported I am using Wine20040505. Is the anybody out there who can help? To be frank, I am a rooky using wine an Linux, but... ;o) " http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine/msg/a3d22d752d2d29e6 "[Outlook seems to use a named pipe to connect to Exchange: fixme:win32:WaitNamedPipeA \\EXCH_CTL2\pipe\epmapper 0x00000000 "] So, there you have it. Databases, Microsoft Exchange, and the like seem to like using remote named pipes. - Dan