samba - Jun 2009 - I need to be able to retrieve windows user info on a windows server.

Hi, I'm a Linux newbie.

I've been doing novice level programming on Delphi win32 for about 2 years,
and recently, I've been exploring freepascal/Lazarus on Ubuntu because I
want to port a small win32 application to Windows.  I've managed to port
over most aspects of the win32 app, including database, but I'm now stuck at
trying to find a Linux equivalent of the netapi32 (a windows NT api
function) which I actually use to call NetUserGetInfo (see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370654(VS.85).aspx) to retrieve
Windows login user info on a windows server.

At this point, I'm not sure whether I need to use Samba, or Wine, or a mix
of both.  I've tried researching on the net for the past 2 days to no avail,
hope to receive some tips from you guys.  :)
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On Sunday 28 June 2009 14:40:13 touchring wrote:
Hi,
> I've been doing novice level programming on Delphi win32 for about 2
years,
> and recently, I've been exploring freepascal/Lazarus on Ubuntu because
I
> want to port a small win32 application to Windows.  I've managed to
port
> over most aspects of the win32 app, including database, but I'm now
stuck
> at trying to find a Linux equivalent of the netapi32 (a windows NT api
> function) which I actually use to call NetUserGetInfo (see
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370654(VS.85).aspx) to retrieve
> Windows login user info on a windows server.
Uh, tricky one.
> At this point, I'm not sure whether I need to use Samba, or Wine, or a
mix
> of both.  I've tried researching on the net for the past 2 days to no
> avail, hope to receive some tips from you guys.  :)
I think at this point your best bet is to use the Samba-based libnetapi 
library. I'm not sure if that is packaged for your system or if you need to 
build samba yourself to get it. I'm also not sure on how to create pascal 
bindings for a C library, but I assume there is a way to do so.

The Wine netapi32 implementation currently only works on the local machine. As 
I understood your question, you need to talk to a remote server, so the Wine 
library won't help you much. Improving that library in Wine has been on my 
todo list for quite a while, but other things tend to come in with a higher 
priority.

Hope this helps,
Kai

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