Possible to set printer devmode using samba3-python?

[daniel.jarboe at custserv.com]

Is it possible to retrieve/set a printer's devmode using the samba3
python
helpers?

I'm trying to automate printer driver installation on samba servers for
Our print admin.  I've no problem getting the driver files from a
windows
printer shared with rpcclient and smbclient, and access printerdata to
set
things like installed printer accessories...

But in order to have the printing preferences and defaults set I believe
I
need getprinter and setprinter.

Getprinter seems to work well, but when doing a python spoolss
setprinter
for info2, I get:
spoolss.werror: [31, 'DOS code 0x0000001f'] ...

And when doing a setprinter(info1) I get segmentation fault.
backtrace of core yields:
#0  0x40322688 in prs_uint32 ()
   from /usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/samba/spoolss.so
#1  0x40372806 in spool_io_printer_info_level_1 ()
   from /usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/samba/spoolss.so
#2  0x403732a0 in spool_io_printer_info_level ()
   from /usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/samba/spoolss.so
#3  0x4037129e in spoolss_io_q_setprinter ()
   from /usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/samba/spoolss.so
#4  0x4038c43e in cli_spoolss_setprinter ()
   from /usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/samba/spoolss.so
#5  0x402bcbd4 in spoolss_hnd_setprinter ()
   from /usr/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/samba/spoolss.so
#6  0x00490162 in PyCFunction_Call ()
#7  0x0046fe68 in PyObject_Call ()
#8  0x00439b7a in PyEval_GetFuncDesc ()

For setprinter(info3) I get:
spoolss.error: error converting to printer info 3 ... 
That is with info3=hnd.getprinter(level=3) ... I made no modifications
to
the format of the data.

Is samba3 python not ready for what I'm trying to do?  Any ideas how I
can
accomplish it by other means?  This is with 3.0.1pre2 on SLES8 s/390,
with
a w2k pc on the other end.

Thanks,
~ Daniel


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