What's Happening with Wine and Samba

Juan Lang

Wine Hacker,

UCD Graduate Slave

What's Wine?

Lets you run regular Windows programs on Linux

Wine Is Not an Emulator

Reimplementation of Win32

Approx. 1m lines of code so far

It's also a porting library: winelib

What's Samba?

An implementation of Windows file sharing protocols

in most cases, faster than Windows on the same hardware

What's coming up in Samba4?

Persistent DOS attributes

read-only, archive bit, etc.

no more guessing from POSIX permissions

NTFS streams support

Totally new RPC layer

Huh? What's that mean?

Much better Active Directory support

Single sign-on

Better management for mixed environments

How could Wine use Samba?

Network Neighborhood

Working RPCs

Authentication against IIS web servers

A “winelogon” mechanism

So is anybody working on it?

Yes! Google Summer of Code

Authentication

Maybe other projects?

What else is new with Wine?

New configuration GUI (winecfg)

Maturing support for installers

Games!!!

Wine for MacOS X (MacIntel)

But the $10m question...

When will Wine be ready?

Probably never be complete

For many apps, it's good enough

Aiming for first (ever!) beta in September

We need your help

Become an app maintainer

appdb.winehq.org

Help triage bugs

bugs.winehq.org

Give n00bs a hand

2005-07-05T10:59:19