DCOM WMI

[Andreas Schneider]

On Thursday, 14 January 2021 12:01:37 CET Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On to, 14 tammi 2021, Andreas Schneider via samba-technical wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've just recognized that source4/lib/wmi/ has a wscript file, but it
> > isn't
> > included anywhere. This means the code isn't used nor built.
> > 
> > What should we do with this code? Can we remove it?
> 
> Cannot answer this but I may have a need for DCOM which is also used by
> WMI and only referenced by WMI IDL file.
> 
> We have a customer request to support MS-ICPR which is a limited version
> of WCCE protocol (only a singe call is available in MS-ICPR) that
> depends on DCOM. It would be good to keep DCOM support. MS-ICPR is also
> used by macOS[1] to be able to request certificates off MS CA.

So you need the IDL and not the tools which are not built at all ...

You can always revert the patch removing them when needed ...


	Andreas

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