Hi, After some googling I've found that there's very little said about the possibility of using WMI from Wine. Has someone done any progress about it? I find this subject very important; if you feel interested here's why: One may think this is a somehow fanciful intention, after all WMI exists for the purpouse of administering Windows, and no doubt that's best done from Windows. But, there are some applications that are best run under Linux and need or would benefit from having this kind of control over Windows. Think of the bunch of security services that run on Linux trying to give business class open source security solutions (snort, nessus, ipchains, etc.), and also one that I'm involved with now: Security Event Monitoring. They could do much more if they could natively reach the Windows systems they are inspecting and protecting. SEM solutions can't only be a place to collect logs, that's of very little use. They have to be able to rise alerts correlating events from the different logs, and should as well be able to act on an alert to protect against a "confirmed" attack (maybe temporarily disabling a Windows use account, or shutting down an unauthorized process, etc.). In the real world every organization has a bunch of Windows systems which are usually numerous and a special security concern, so if we want to see business class SEM solutions running on Linux, we need a straightforward way to monitor and act on Windows. Linux is a best fit platform for a SEM system, WINE runs WSH so we can run Windows native scripts from which to invoke Windows native commands; so we are only a step away from opening a lot of insteresting possibilities. Thanks a lot for your attention. Juan Alvarez __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
