Current status of WMI support in Samba 4
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Fri May 29 08:41:31 GMT 2009
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 09:04 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 13:03 +0200, Michael Sievers wrote:
> > Hi !
> >
> > The Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing currently evaluates the
> > possibility of contributing a Hyper-V driver to the libvirt project.
> > Hyper-V uses WMI as its primary API. Searching the web for a way using
> > WMI from Linux showed us that there is a Samba 4 based WMI command line
> > client in Ubuntu, based on Samba 4 (TP4). But TP4 is rather old, so I
> > searched the mailing list archiv for mails concerning current WMI
> > support. Last thing I noticed was an announcement of alpha 6, mentioned
> > that WMI supported was reintegrated, but not as functional as before.
> >
> > My question is how functional is WMI support in current samba 4 alpha 7
> > Is it usable ? How can I enable it ? I downloaded alpha 7 and tried to
> > build the wmic/wmis tools, but didn't find an appropriate configure nor
> > makefile option.
>
> Sadly the WMI development occured in a private fork of Samba4 just after
> we removed the DCOM code on which it relied from the distribution. We
> found out about it only months later, after the packages landed in
> Debian.
>
> It has taken a lot of effort (and there are some other blockers) to get
> the support back into Samba4. Ask Jelmer for the details.
Should you wish to develop on this, I would look at the com branch in
git://git.samba.org/jelmer/samba.git
and the wmi branch in
git://git.samba.org/jelmer/samba4.git
But I don't know the status more than that. Jelmer can perhaps
elaborate on the status of that code, and what needs to be done before
it can be merged.
Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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