wine users - Dec 2008 - Creating COM object on Wine

Hi,

I would like to use Wine to perform WMI querying on a remote Windows machine. 

What I need to do is create an instance of SwbemLocator on my local Linux box.
Once I've created this COM object, I'll use it to connect to a remote
Windows machine and perform WMI queries.

My question at this point is a very basic one: how do I connect to my local
installation of Wine in order to create the COM object instance? It seems to me
that wineserver is probably something that will be helpful to me, but once I get
it going I still need to access it in order to create the object. Will
wineserver be listening for incoming COM connections?

I'm using j-Interop (a Java to COM bridge written purely in Java) to create
the object. Currently I'm doing it against a remote Windows host, but
because of poor performance when there is high network latency, I'd like to
connect to an instance of SwbemLocator on my local host -- which is Linux.

Any suggestions or directions to try in order to do this would be highly
appreciated!

Thanks,
David

daver667 wrote:
> I would like to use Wine to perform WMI querying on a remote Windows
machine.
Wine does not support WMI. 


daver667 wrote:
> What I need to do is create an instance of SwbemLocator on my local Linux
box. Once I've created this COM object, I'll use it to connect to a
remote Windows machine and perform WMI queries.
This is mostly not supported either. Just some rudimentary RPC.

Thanks a lot for your quick answer.

-David