setting up samba server for remote printer driver download

[Gerald Carter]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Michael Sweet wrote:

> Steven French wrote:
> > I think Tim had recently mentioned that setting up a Samba print server for
> > remote driver download via imprints was broken due to the error mapping
> > problem in rpcclient spoolss stuff.    I haven't had much success doing the
> > equivalent (installing the drivers remotely to the Samba server download
> > area and configuring the driver properties for the spooler) via the Windows
> > 2000 Add Printer Wizard or printui utility.     Do most people setup
> > printer download via imprints? but if so I am surprised more people haven't
> > mentioned the problem in 2.2.x that Tim was mentioning.   Looks like the
> > merge of the 3.0 fixes to 2.2.x in the spoolss rpcclient code is
> > non-trivial.
> 
> We've had a lot of reported problems with the CUPS "cupsaddsmb"
> program when adding the Adobe PS drivers via smbclient and rpcclient.
> Everything worked in 2.2.2, but broke starting with 2.2.3.
> 
> I've been trying to root out the problem but haven't had much luck so
> far (still getting up to speed on the spoolss code) - basic things
> like the printer name and server name are not getting passed back
> in the enumprinters request, for example.

It's rpcclient.  Some of the code which got merged broke things like 
enumprinters, etc...  It's a really simple bug.  The client issues 
a request to find the reuqired buffer size but then does not
execute the RPC again to actually get the data.




jerry
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