(Responding as plain text, your email probably got punted from the ML from being HTML)
> > ... > > I'm not sure what you are asking about. Samba does not deal with WMI at all. > The state of affairs is > explained at > https://powershell.org/2015/04/24/management-information-the-omicimwmimidmtf-dictionary/ > > -- old WMI (DCOM/RPC-based) is deprecated, new WMI based on WS-MAN is > supported and OMI is the > implementation. We used to have a very limited attemt at writing DCOM stack > and nobody worked on > it for years so it got removed. Thanks! That was a very interesting read. > Microsoft has already published a MOF parser as part of OMI work: > https://github.com/Microsoft/omi/ > under MIT license. Unfortunately that's expecting text MOF, not this intermediary compiled format.