dbus remotely usable?

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Fri Sep 24 20:16:32 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 15:15 +0200, Stephan Stapel wrote:
> What I'd like to know is whether it's possible to remotely (i.e. from
> other machines) call dbus services.

If your bus is listening on TCP then yes, but by default the systemwide
bus does not. The session bus does.

> Another question is whether dbus would work on win32? Did anyone
> successfully compile and run it there?

Not yet, though in theory it is not that hard to port.

Havoc




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