Re: CIFS named pipe support

Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:18:12 +0200
Volker Lendecke <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:34:00AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> So WINE should probably just connect to winbind to get its
> credentials when it wants transparent authentication.
> 

That sounds reasonable. Might even be nice to eventually teach
cifs.upcall to do that too...

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