From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2008-03-05T06:34:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Managing Windows from Linux via Ruby

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On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:14 AM, Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a reliable way to manage resources on Windows
> machines
> >  from a Linux platform using Ruby?  I'm currently using win32api and
> win32ole
> >  to create directories and set permissions on multiple remote Windows
> >  machines but would like to migrate my application to a Linux platform.
>  I'm
> >  also interacting with AD but that works fine with LDAP.
> >
> >  Anyone have any suggestions on how I could go about this, or is it not
> worth
> >  my while?
>
> One reasonably cheap way is to use win32-service to run a drb server
> that calls your other windows libraries across the network from your
> linux box. I've used this approach quite successfully, albeit for very
> trivial tasks. I used rubyscript2exe and srvany.exe to make the
> service, because i was unaware of win32-service at the time; if I had
> to do it again I'd probably use the latter.
>
> martin
>


Thanks for the idea Martin.  It doesn't sound too horrible.  I'll look into
it.


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