[ros-dev] Office (Excel, Word...) 2010 on ReactOS

[Giannis Adamopoulos]

As a temporary solution we could try creating a usable installer for this build of samba and offer to download it with rapps.

ReactOS Development List <ros-dev at reactos.org> wrote on Tue, February 21st, 2017, 6:16 AM:
> May be it is better to temporarily add Samba itself to ReactOS? It is not that simple to install it for average user.
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> I suggest add it at least as downloadable module, the same way we do with gecko
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> 21.02.2017, 05:11, "Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO" <hermes.belusca at sfr.fr>:
> He recently (since January) restarted to play with it. 
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> De : Ros-dev [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org] De la part de Zachary Gorden
> Envoyé : mardi 21 février 2017 03:04
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> Objet : Re: [ros-dev] Office (Excel, Word...) 2010 on ReactOS
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> Is Samuel actually still actively working on NTLM? I thought that branch of his was pretty old. Might be something to consider a dev contract for.
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> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 7:59 PM, Hermès BÉLUSCA-MAÏTO <hermes.belusca at sfr.fr> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Today I was finally able to finish the installation of Office 2010 in
> ReactOS, using as a temporary measure the Wine’s NTLM layer that calls into
> the ntlm_auth utility of Samba. This was done while Samuel is completing his
> NTLM implementation.
> As this wine layer is here running on ReactOS, few modifications were
> needed, and I also needed to find a Windows build of Samba. I’ve found one,
> by chance, at http://smithii.com/samba . Then, using ReactOS revision 73868
> (or later), and using this version of Samba, the Office installation
> finishes (reminder: the problem was due to the fact the installer needed
> NTLM to communicate with the “Office Software Platform Service”,
> OSPPSVC.EXE). We are now able to use Excel, Word, … on ReactOS, as shown in
> this picture:
> http://i.imgur.com/fLEwoVI.png
> 
> There are now 2 main problems:
> - NTLM should be correctly implemented;
> - There are an awful lot of drawing problems with Office 2010 applications
> (similar to those of Office 2007 apps): for example, dragging the graph
> downwards shows his frame going upwards; there are many black regions that
> show up, etc...: It seems we have problems in coordinate frames. And other
> problems too. Also, we have some mouse capture problems: if you try to
> redimension the windows the normal way (bring mouse cursor on top of the
> border, left-click-maintained, move mouse, release left button), and then
> move the mouse inside the window, it continues to be redimensioned...
> As a result, I took ~=15 minutes to make this simple trivial picture above,
> almost all the time taken to fight against window dimensioning & the drawing
> problems.
> 
> But anyways, enjoy !
> 
> This will be part of my next blog report.
> 
> Cheers,
> Hermès
> 
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