Using rpcclient to install printer drivers
T. William Schmidt
wschmidt at starband.net
Mon Oct 8 16:51:02 GMT 2001
Hi all,
I have just discovered docos for rpcclient in 2.2.1a, and it appears that a
solution for installing printer drivers on my Samba server may be
in-hand. I am furiously reading man rpcclient and experimenting and with
any luck, this will bear fruit. I have to date been unable to use the NT
Add Printer Wizard to upload drivers and I believe the reason is that in
our particular implementation we are not using nmbd, as we are not allowing
Samba servers to broadcast browse info. Therefore, the user will never see
our Samba print server in a browse list of printers. The user desiring to
define a Samba based printer or mount a Samba file share must know of its
existence by explicitly expressing a UNC. It's a long story about why we
choose not to run nmbd and is not germane to discussion except as background.
The point is, from the doco it appears that I can install drivers with
rpcclient and my question is, can anyone supply examples of how they did
this, particular if you have scripted it? Clearly, I can copy the driver
binaries to the correct Windows architecture directory defined with a path
expression in print$, but what I am looking for is a way to correctly
update ntdrivers.tdb, which seems to be the key ingredient to getting Samba
to download drivers to PC clients. And just to be clear, my problem is not
defining Samba printers, I can do that in my sleep. The problem really is
managing the drivers so that they download transparently to each PC when
the PC user defines one of our printers.
Does anyone have experience using rpcclient in this manner?
Regards,
Will Schmidt
SW Engineer/Consultant
Kipe & Associates currently on assignment @ Freightliner LLC
Portland, OR
(541) 462-3160
(541) 462-3899 fax
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