Hello, I wrote too soon. Although now rpcclient reports that the printer driver is successfully installed, all the filenames after the escaped newline are ignored. The man page for rpcclient seems to indicate that there is a problem with commandline parsing. Is this the root of the problem? -- Tom. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Crummey, Systems and Network Manager, EMAIL: tom@ee.ucl.ac.uk Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, TEL: +44 (0)20 7679 3898 Torrington Place, FAX: +44 (0)20 7388 9325 London, UK, WC1E 7JE. --------------------------------------------------------------------------