[jcifs] Installing windows services

[Srivatsan P]

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

>> Eventually we will have nice easy to use APIs that
>> are precompiled and so..

When will these APIs be available? Can you tell the
approx. time frame.

It will be very useful as I do not have knowledge in
MSRPC and other lower level stuff.

Thanks,
Srivatsan.


 --- Michael B Allen <mba2000 at ioplex.com> wrote: 
> Srivatsan P said:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to install/control Windows Services, access
> > Windows Registry from Linux using java.
> >
> > On reading the previous mails in the mailing list
> > archives, I found that it is possible to do so
> using
> > jarapac, midlc, etc.
> 
> Not really. The code is pretty solid but it's still
> *highly experimental*
> and requires a significant amount of knowledge about
> stuff that you should
> not need to know. Eventually there will be nice user
> friendly APIs for
> doing this stuff but at the moment we only have some
> basic test programs
> for srvsvc (service control manager) and a few other
> interfaces (no winreg
> at the moment).
> 
> > First I did a make of libmba (0.8.10) and then did
> a
> > 'make install'
> > Then I tried to make midlc (0.5.1). But the header
> > files(mda/*.h) of libmba were not available to the
> > compiler and so it generated compilation error.
> 
> You didn't install libmba properly. Doing 'make'
> changing to root and
> running 'make install' should install the library in
> /usr/local/{lib,include}.
> 
> > The README file for midlc says that libmba home
> needs
> > to be set in the Makefile's first line (I changed
> > prefix='libmba home dir').
> > Even then, the header files were not available to
> the
> > compiler.
> 
> You shouldn't have to change anything. By default
> libmba installs in
> /usr/local/{lib,include} and that is where midlc
> looks for it by default.
> Meaning the prefix on the first line of each
> Makefile is '/usr/local'.
> 
> >
> > So I moved the header files(mba/*.h)  to
> > /usr/include/mba/
> 
> Ick.
> 
> >
> > Then I tried to make midlc again. I think all
> files
> > were compiled but I got the following error:
> >
> > gcc -Wall -W -g -O2 -DMSGNO -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500
> ...
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmba
> 
> Yeah, well the library wasn't installed properly so
> that's to be expected.
> 
> Eventually we will have nice easy to use APIs that
> are precompiled and so
> on. Otherwise you have to be pretty knowledgeable
> about MSRPC and some
> lower level stuff to make it work which isn't easy
> to explain in an email.
> That discussion would really deserve an entire
> tutorial.
> 
> Mike
>  

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