Re: CIFS named pipe support
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs |
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:47:23 +0200 Volker Lendecke <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 08:09:44AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > > Is there something I'm missing here? > > The main one is authentication. People might want to ride on > the credentials used in the cifs filesystem. > > Volker The problem though is that you won't necessarily have credentials for random_server_X that WINE wants to talk to. That's sort of my point. The current CIFS-based solution sort of requires that you have some way to know ahead of time what hosts you're going to talk to, and that's not necessarily the case with apps that run under WINE. -- Jeff Layton <[email protected]>