samba - Dec 2003 - rpcclient / adddriver returns WERR_ACCESS_DENIED

Hi,

I am trying to prepare downloadable printer drivers for Windows-Clients
with Samba 3.0.0-final. Everything worked fine so far. But I found no
way to add the printer driver files to the samba database. The method
using the Add Printer Wizard in W2k did not work for me.

This is what I tried:

linux4:/# rpcclient -U'root%secret' -c 'adddriver "Windows NT
x86"
"LJ6:HPBLEF2.DLL:HPBLEF49.PMD:HPBLEF0.DLL:HPBLEFJE.HLP:NULL:RAW:HPBLEF1.DLL,HPBLEF3.DLL,HPBLEF7.DLL,hpbafd32.dll,hpbftm32.dll,HPBLEF41.DLL,HPBLEF42.DLL,HPDCMON.DLL"
' localhost
result was WERR_ACCESS_DENIED


Any "hints" are very welcome!!

Have a nice day!

This is my smb.conf:
# Samba config file created using SWAT
[global]
        workgroup = ENTWICKLUNG
        netbios name = LINUX4
        server string = %h server (Samba %v)
        encrypt passwords = true
        passdb backend = tdbsam guest
        obey pam restrictions = Yes
        passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
        passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
*Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
        syslog = 0
        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
        max log size = 1000
        dns proxy = No
        panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
#       invalid users = root
        hosts allow = all
        printing = cups
        load printers = yes
        printer admin = root,arnstr,guest
        printcap name = cups

[printers]
        comment = All Printers
        path = /var/spool/samba
        browseable = no
        public = yes
        guest ok = yes
        writable = yes
        printable = yes
        printer admin = root,arnstr,guest


[print$]
        comment = Printer Drivers
        path = /etc/samba/drivers
        browseable = yes
        guest ok = yes
        read only = yes
        write list = root


[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no

> Arnst, Rainer Rainer.Arnst at ee-consultants.de
> Tue Dec 9 09:59:20 GMT 2003
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to prepare downloadable printer drivers for Windows-Clients
> with Samba 3.0.0-final. Everything worked fine so far. But I found no
> way to add the printer driver files to the samba database. The method
> using the Add Printer Wizard in W2k did not work for me.
> 
> This is what I tried:
> 
> linux4:/# rpcclient -U'root%secret' -c 'adddriver "Windows
NT x86"
>
"LJ6:HPBLEF2.DLL:HPBLEF49.PMD:HPBLEF0.DLL:HPBLEFJE.HLP:NULL:RAW:HPBLEF1.DLL,HPBLEF3.DLL,HPBLEF7.DLL,hpbafd32.dll,hpbftm32.dll,HPBLEF41.DLL,HPBLEF42.DLL,HPDCMON.DLL"
' localhost
> result was WERR_ACCESS_DENIED
> 
This error typically occurs, if you haven't any driver files waiting
to be "adddriver-ed", laying in "[print$]/W32/X86/"

Once you run "rpcclient....adddriver", and it fails, you will have to
re-assure that *all* the original files are still in place. (A partially
succeeding "adddriver" may have moved the files already to the
"2" or
"3" subdirectories!

But your description is not clear at all. On the one hand you say you
had used the "APW", on the other you are quoting the
"rpcclient...
...adddriver" command in isolation.

An isolated "adddriver" will never work. There needs to be a step of
putting the files (somehow) into the "[print$]/W32X86/" directory
*beforehand*. The HOWTO Collection (version for Samba-3.0) suggests to
employ "smbclient" for this job.

I suggest you painstakingly follow the steps described in chapters
18.6. or 19.10./19.11. of the HOWTO Collection. See here:

     http://de.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf
     http://de.samba.org/samba/docs/man/
> 
> Any "hints" are very welcome!!
> 
[....]
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         browseable = no
>         public = yes
>         guest ok = yes
>         writable = yes
>         printable = yes
You want here
           writeable = no
           printable = yes
>         printer admin = root,arnstr,guest
> 
> 
> [print$]
>         comment = Printer Drivers
>         path = /etc/samba/drivers
>         browseable = yes
>         guest ok = yes
>         read only = yes
>         write list = root
> 
I suggest you read "man cupsaddsmb" and set up your config as
suggested
there.

Cheers,
Kurt