Andrew, Thanks very much. After sending my question, I discovered that the DCOM area was disabled in the build as of 8 years ago, so it became clear that this is not currently supported in any way. Steve Koehler On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:> On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 11:16 -0600, Stephen Koehler via samba wrote: > > I see that the Samba sources include the WMI client (wmic), but I have > not > > succeeded in getting the configure/make to build it. Does anyone know if > > this feature is supported in current (4.7.4) Samba, and, if so, how to > > build it? > > The story of wmic is pretty sad, and no Samba doesn't contain it. > > As I understand it: > > wmic was silently forked from Samba4 many years ago, and then licenced > as GPLv2 only by a company that is no longer developing it. While > forked we removed the supporting code because we saw now future in it, > and now we have no practical way back. > > (This makes the OpenChange story seem positive in comparison). > > Sorry, > > Andrew Bartlett > > -- > Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ > Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org > Samba Developer, Catalyst IT http://catalyst.net.nz/ > services/samba > >
On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 14:05 -0600, Stephen Koehler wrote:> Andrew, > > Thanks very much. After sending my question, I discovered that the DCOM area was disabled in the build as of 8 years ago, so it became clear that this is not currently supported in any way.This looks very interesting: https://github.com/dlundgren/py-wmi-client It in turn is based on https://github.com/CoreSecurity/impacket which is a raw client library in python. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett https://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team https://samba.org Samba Development and Support, Catalyst IT https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba
Thanks for the pointer. I will take a look. Steve Koehler On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:> On Wed, 2018-02-21 at 14:05 -0600, Stephen Koehler wrote: > > Andrew, > > > > Thanks very much. After sending my question, I discovered that the DCOM > area was disabled in the build as of 8 years ago, so it became clear that > this is not currently supported in any way. > > This looks very interesting: > > https://github.com/dlundgren/py-wmi-client > > It in turn is based on https://github.com/CoreSecurity/impacket which > is a raw client library in python. > > Andrew Bartlett > -- > Andrew Bartlett > https://samba.org/~abartlet/ > Authentication Developer, Samba Team https://samba.org > Samba Development and Support, Catalyst IT > https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba > > > > >