[Samba] Re: rpcclient 'adddriver issue HP Deskjet 1220C
Andreas Oster
aoster at novanetwork.de
Thu Jul 10 05:43:52 GMT 2008
Hello Mark,
thank you for the directory hint. I had actually placed the files into
the wrong directory, so the 'WERR_BADFILE' was actually a 'file not
found' error :-(
Thank you for your kind help
regards
Andreas
Mark Gannon schrieb:
> On Wednesday 09 July 2008 05:40:19 am Andreas Oster wrote:
>> I have copied the driver files to /var/lib/printers prior to executing
>> the adddriver command !
>
> The drivers need to be copied to the directory returned by the "getdriverdir"
> rpc command. On my system the output looks like:
>
> rpcclient $> getdriverdir
> rpc_pipe_bind: Remote machine localhost pipe \spoolss fnum 0x772d bind request
> returned ok.
> Directory Name:[\\LOCALHOST\print$\W32X86]
>
> Where the network share maps to /var/lib/printers. My interpretation is that
> you need to create two new directories on your system.
>
> i. /var/lib/printers/W32X86
> ii. /var/lib/printers/W32X86/3
>
> And the directories need to be writeable over the print$ share by the user you
> run rpcclient as.
>
> If you don't mind changing your arrangement so that the print jobs are
> rendered on the Linux host and a standard PostScript driver is distributed to
> the clients, you might have a look at the following article:
>
> http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsysm/article.php/3621876
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark Gannon
>
>
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