samba - May 2002 - Will rpcclient ever get better?

I was wondering if anyone has heard of someone trying to improve on
rpcclient, specifically regarding the printer-related commands. Also, it
seems that rpcclient has trouble returning a large list of printers
(enumprinters), like in the range of 200. Has anyone heard about this?

Thanks in advance for replies :-)
 
Thomas Klopf
MMS - Gulf Region (ACS-GS contractor)
 
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On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 12:56:04PM -0500, Klopf, Tom wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has heard of someone trying to improve on
> rpcclient, specifically regarding the printer-related commands. Also, it
> seems that rpcclient has trouble returning a large list of printers
> (enumprinters), like in the range of 200. Has anyone heard about this?
> 
> Thanks in advance for replies :-)
rpcclient is admittedly pretty crappy.  It's only meant as a developer
tool which is not really an excuse.  The HEAD version has a lot of the
printing commands repaired if you would like to try it out instead of
the 2.2 version.


Tim.

Thanks very much - that clarifies things a lot.

Thomas Klopf
MMS - Gulf Region (ACS-GS contractor)


-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Potter [mailto:tpot@samba.org] 
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 6:44 PM
To: Tom.Klopf@mms.gov
Subject: Re: [Samba] Will rpcclient ever get better?

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:28:43AM -0600, Tom.Klopf@mms.gov wrote:
> Thanks very much for the response. I was a little confused by the
different
> development trees for samba, though.  As far as I could tell, there's
the
> "standard" samba (is this "head"?) and then there's
TNG.  Could you tell
me
> where to get the HEAD version of rpcclient exactly? 
So the standard samba is really the latest released version of 2.2.
Most new development takes place in the HEAD branch and is eventually
ported into 2.2 or will become Samba 3.0.

TNG is different again.  They are more focussed on being a DCE/RPC
server rather than a file and print server.

If you want to try out some of the development code, download the
nightly tarball from
ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/unpacked/tarballs/samba-head-snapshot.tar.gz

Having unpacked it, do:

cd source
./configure
make bin/rpcclient

Then if you like copy bin/rpcclient somewhere like
/usr/local/bin/rpcclient-head if you find it useful.

If you are using a packaged binary version of Samba you may need to muck
around with some options to configure to tell rpcclient where to find
your smb.conf file.


Regards,

Tim.