Trying to get X and KDE WM to co-operate with Wine's Z-order is a painful job! i'm really tempted to start writing a new window manager that understands and cooperates with Wine... perhaps hack Wine support into fvwm95?
Jeremy Allison seems a little bit supportive of external access to Samba's named pipes layer. Not sure that he understands that i need dynamic access though...
On the up side, JJJ's streaming is working again :-)
lkcl vs. the samba team
I implemented basic (non-network) Named Pipes Support in the Wine project. I am investigating how to add support for Named Pipes over the network.
After reading Luke's article on the front page, i have to say i mostly agree with what he says. Despite his bitterness, he does have a point.
Samba is the NetBIOS gateway in Linux, yet the leaders of that project have provided no way for any non-samba code to access NetBIOS functionallity. Windows multiplexes almost all it's network access through ports137 and139. They should at least accept a few basic hooks so that others can get the job done. The Samba teams' attitude is basically just port-hogging.
Perhaps the best solution is to write another port 139 listening daemon that sorts through requests and passes accesses to shares to samba... to get under samba. Such a thing would cause a great performance hit, but maybe then the Samba team would get the message...
my $0.02 worth.
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