[Samba] Problem registering printer driver files with samba

[Tom Crummey]

Hello,

Samba version 3.0.23c on Solaris 9.

I can't seem to register printer driver files with samba using 
rpcclient. The problem is that NEWLINEs are not escaped, so I can't 
specify all the files I need to for a particular printer. Also, I can't 
use a Windows box with the add printer wizard as the printer insists on 
using it's own installer.

In essence this is a bug, either in the Samba HOWTO (Chapter 21, section 
Running rpcclient with adddriver) or with rpcclient.

The HOWTO example has an unbalanced ". It suggests that you can escape 
newlines using \, but when I do that, the filenames passed to samba 
include the newline and therefore, the command fails. Here is a snippet 
of log file that shows the problem:

[2006/10/10 16:21:42, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(603)
   unix_clean_name [W32X86/3/
    KMPF41IE.DLL]
[2006/10/10 16:21:42, 3] smbd/dosmode.c:unix_mode(147)
   unix_mode(W32X86/3/
    KMPF41IE.DLL) returning 0744
[2006/10/10 16:21:42, 3] lib/util.c:unix_clean_name(603)
   unix_clean_name [W32X86/
    KMPF41IE.DLL]
[2006/10/10 16:21:42, 0] 
printing/nt_printing.c:move_driver_to_download_area(1908)
   move_driver_to_download_area: Unable to rename [W32X86/
    KMPF41IE.DLL] to [W32X86/3/
    KMPF41IE.DLL]
[2006/10/10 16:21:42, 3] smbd/sec_ctx.c:set_sec_ctx(241)
   setting sec ctx (0, 0) - sec_ctx_stack_ndx = 1
[2006/10/10 16:21:42, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1141)
   spock (128.40.42.33) closed connection to service print$
[2006/10/10 16:21:42, 3] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(69)
   Yielding connection to print$

I've tried it with no " with the second " before the first : and with 
the second " at the end of the command. No matter what I do, the newline 
is never escaped.

If I try to run the command interactively, again, the newline is 
immediately interpreted as the end of the command and I cannot enter 
more than half of the driver filenames. I've tried 1-5 \ characters.
Thinking that it could be a problem with the popt library in Solaris, I 
rebuilt samba with the builtin popt, but with no change. I've tried 
using rpcclient on a RedHat linux system (3.0.10), again that doesn't work.

I'm stumped and could really do with some help. Has anyone managed to 
register a printer driver with so many files that it takes more than one 
command line length?


-- 
Tom.

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