mailto(samba-bugs@samba.org) manpage(rpcclient htmlcommand((1)))(1)(23 Oct 1998)(Samba)(SAMBA) label(NAME) manpagename(rpcclient)(utility to manage MSRPC resources on servers) label(SYNOPSIS) manpagesynopsis() bf(rpcclient) [link(password)(password)] link(-S servername)(servername) [link(-U [username][%][password])(minusU)] [link(-W domain)(minusW)] [link(-l log basename)(minusl)] [link(-d debuglevel)(minusd)] [link(-O socket options)(minusO)] [link(-i scope)(minusi)] [link(-N)(minusN)] [link(-n NetBIOS name)(minusn)] [link(-h)(minush)] [link(-I dest IP)(minusI)] [link(-E)(minusE)] [link(-t terminal code)(minust)] [link(-c command string)(minusc)] [link(-B IP addr)(minusB)] [link(-s smb.conf)(minuss)] [link(-m max protocol)(minusm)] label(DESCRIPTION) manpagedescription() This program is part of the bf(Samba) suite. bf(rpcclient) is a client that can 'talk' to an SMB/CIFS MSRPC server. Operations include things like managing a SAM Database (users, groups and aliases) in the same way as the Windows NT programs bf(User Manager for Domains) and bf(Server Manager for Domains); managing a remote registry in the same way as the Windows NT programs bf(REGEDT32.EXE) and bf(REGEDIT.EXE); viewing a remote event log (same as bf(EVENTVWR.EXE)) etc. Typical usage is like this: nl() tt(rpcclient -I 192.168.32.1 -S "*SMBSERVER" -U fred%secret -l log) nl() bf(rpcclient) is em(not) suitable for usage on single-user systems such as Windows 9X, as Windows 9X does not support MSRPC services. Therefore, if you have problems using bf(rpcclient) with Windows 9X, we don't want to hear about it. label(OPTIONS) manpageoptions() startdit() label(servername) dit(bf(servername)) servername is the name of the server you want to use on the server. This should be the NetBIOS name of the SMB/CIFS server, which can be bf(*SMBSERVER) on Windows NT 4.0 or Samba Servers. Note that the server name required is NOT necessarily the IP (DNS) host name of the server! The name required is a NetBIOS server name, which may or may not be the same as the IP hostname of the machine running the server. Also, remember that having a period in a NetBIOS name (such as an IP hostname) may cause connectivity problems on your network: NT tends to strip NetBIOS names from the leading period onwards. The server name is looked up according to either the link(bf(-R))(minusR) parameter to bf(rpcclient) or using the url(bf(name resolve order))(smb.conf.5.html#nameresolveorder) parameter in the smb.conf file, allowing an administrator to change the order and methods by which server names are looked up. label(password) dit(bf(password)) password is the password required to access the specified service on the specified server. If this parameter is supplied, the link(bf(-N))(minusN) option (suppress password prompt) is assumed. There is no default password. If no password is supplied on the command line (either by using this parameter or adding a password to the link(bf(-U))(minusU) option (see below)) and the link(bf(-N))(minusN) option is not specified, the client will prompt for a password, even if the desired service does not require one. (If no password is required, simply press ENTER to provide a null password.) Note: Some servers (including OS/2 and Windows for Workgroups) insist on an uppercase password. Lowercase or mixed case passwords may be rejected by these servers. Be cautious about including passwords in scripts. label(minuss) dit(bf(-s smb.conf)) This parameter specifies the pathname to the Samba configuration file, smb.conf. This file controls all aspects of the Samba setup on the machine and rpcclient also needs to read this file. label(minusB) dit(bf(-B IP addr)) The IP address to use when sending a broadcast packet. label(minusO) dit(bf(-O socket options)) TCP socket options to set on the client socket. See the url(socket options)(smb.conf.5.html#socketoptions) parameter in the url(bf(smb.conf (5)))(smb.conf.5.html) manpage for the list of valid options. label(minusR) dit(bf(-R name resolve order)) This option allows the user of rpcclient to determine what name resolution services to use when looking up the NetBIOS name of the host being connected to. The options are :"lmhosts", "host", "wins" and "bcast". They cause names to be resolved as follows : startit() it() bf(lmhosts) : Lookup an IP address in the Samba lmhosts file. The lmhosts file is stored in the same directory as the url(bf(smb.conf))(smb.conf.5.html) file. it() bf(host) : Do a standard host name to IP address resolution, using the system /etc/hosts, NIS, or DNS lookups. This method of name resolution is operating system depended for instance on IRIX or Solaris this may be controlled by the em(/etc/nsswitch.conf) file). it() bf(wins) : Query a name with the IP address listed in the url(bf(wins server))(smb.conf.5.html#winsserver) parameter in the smb.conf file. If no WINS server has been specified this method will be ignored. it() bf(bcast) : Do a broadcast on each of the known local interfaces listed in the url(bf(interfaces))(smb.conf.5.html#interfaces) parameter in the smb.conf file. This is the least reliable of the name resolution methods as it depends on the target host being on a locally connected subnet. To specify a particular broadcast address the link(bf(-B))(minusB) option may be used. endit() If this parameter is not set then the name resolve order defined in the url(bf(smb.conf))(smb.conf.5.html) file parameter url((bf(name resolve order)))(smb.conf.5.html#nameresolveorder) will be used. The default order is lmhosts, host, wins, bcast and without this parameter or any entry in the url(bf("name resolve order"))(smb.conf.5.html#nameresolveorder) parameter of the url(bf(smb.conf))(smb.conf.5.html) file the name resolution methods will be attempted in this order. label(minusi) dit(bf(-i scope)) This specifies a NetBIOS scope that rpcclient will use to communicate with when generating NetBIOS names. For details on the use of NetBIOS scopes, see rfc1001.txt and rfc1002.txt. NetBIOS scopes are em(very) rarely used, only set this parameter if you are the system administrator in charge of all the NetBIOS systems you communicate with. label(minusN) dit(bf(-N)) If specified, this parameter suppresses the normal password prompt from the client to the user. This is useful when accessing a service that does not require a password. Unless a password is specified on the command line or this parameter is specified, the client will request a password. label(minusn) dit(bf(-n NetBIOS name)) By default, the client will use the local machine's hostname (in uppercase) as its NetBIOS name. This parameter allows you to override the host name and use whatever NetBIOS name you wish. label(minusd) dit(bf(-d debuglevel)) debuglevel is an integer from 0 to 10, or the letter 'A'. The default value if this parameter is not specified is zero. The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log files about the activities of the client. At level 0, only critical errors and serious warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for day to day running - it generates a small amount of information about operations carried out. Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of log data, and should only be used when investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are designed for use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log data, most of which is extremely cryptic. If debuglevel is set to the letter 'A', then em(all) debug messages will be printed. This setting is for developers only (and people who em(really) want to know how the code works internally). Note that specifying this parameter here will override the url(bf(log level))(smb.conf.5.html#loglevel) parameter in the url(bf(smb.conf (5)))(smb.conf.5.html) file. label(minusp) dit(bf(-p port)) This number is the TCP port number that will be used when making connections to the server. The standard (well-known) TCP port number for an SMB/CIFS server is 139, which is the default. label(minusl) dit(bf(-l logfilename)) If specified, logfilename specifies a base filename into which operational data from the running client will be logged. The default base name is specified at compile time. The base name is used to generate actual log file names. For example, if the name specified was "log", the debug file would be tt(log.client). The log file generated is never removed by the client. label(minush) dit(bf(-h)) Print the usage message for the client. label(minusI) dit(bf(-I IP address)) IP address is the address of the server to connect to. It should be specified in standard "a.b.c.d" notation. Normally the client would attempt to locate a named SMB/CIFS server by looking it up via the NetBIOS name resolution mechanism described above in the link(bf(name resolve order))(minusR) parameter above. Using this parameter will force the client to assume that the server is on the machine with the specified IP address and the NetBIOS name component of the resource being connected to will be ignored. There is no default for this parameter. If not supplied, it will be determined automatically by the client as described above. label(minusE) dit(bf(-E)) This parameter causes the client to write messages to the standard error stream (stderr) rather than to the standard output stream. By default, the client writes messages to standard output - typically the user's tty. Note that by default, debug information is always sent to stderr. Debug information can instead be sent to a file, using the link(-l log basename)(minusl) option. label(minusU) dit(bf(-U username)) This specifies the user name that will be used by the client to make a connection, assuming your server is not a downlevel server that is running a protocol level that uses passwords on shares, not on usernames. Some servers are fussy about the case of this name, and some insist that it must be a valid NetBIOS name. If no username is supplied, it will default to an uppercase version of the environment variable tt(USER) or tt(LOGNAME) in that order. If no username is supplied and neither environment variable exists the username "GUEST" will be used. If the tt(USER) environment variable contains a '%' character, everything after that will be treated as a password. This allows you to set the environment variable to be tt(USER=username%password) so that a password is not passed on the command line (where it may be seen by the ps command). If the service you are connecting to requires a password, it can be supplied using the link(bf(-U))(minusU) option, by appending a percent symbol ("%") then the password to username. For example, to attach to a service as user tt("fred") with password tt("secret"), you would specify. nl() tt(-U fred%secret) nl() on the command line. Note that there are no spaces around the percent symbol. If you specify the password as part of username then the link(bf(-N))(minusN) option (suppress password prompt) is assumed. If you specify the password as a parameter em(AND) as part of username then the password as part of username will take precedence. Putting nothing before or nothing after the percent symbol will cause an empty username or an empty password to be used, respectively. The password may also be specified by setting up an environment variable called tt(PASSWORD) that contains the users password. Note that this may be very insecure on some systems but on others allows users to script rpcclient commands without having a password appear in the command line of a process listing. Note: Some servers (including OS/2 and Windows for Workgroups) insist on an uppercase password. Lowercase or mixed case passwords may be rejected by these servers. Be cautious about including passwords in scripts or in the tt(PASSWORD) environment variable. Also, on many systems the command line of a running process may be seen via the tt(ps) command to be safe always allow rpcclient to prompt for a password and type it in directly. label(minust) dit(bf(-t terminal code)) This option tells rpcclient how to interpret filenames coming from the remote server. Usually Asian language multibyte UNIX implementations use different character sets than SMB/CIFS servers (em(EUC) instead of em(SJIS) for example). Setting this parameter will let rpcclient convert between the UNIX filenames and the SMB filenames correctly. This option has not been seriously tested and may have some problems. The terminal codes include tt(sjis), tt(euc), tt(jis7), tt(jis8), tt(junet), tt(hex), tt(cap). This is not a complete list, check the Samba source code for the complete list. label(minusm) dit(bf(-m max protocol level)) With the new code in Samba2.0, bf(rpcclient) always attempts to connect at the maximum protocols level the server supports. This parameter is preserved for backwards compatibility, but any string following the bf(-m) will be ignored. label(minusW) dit(bf(-W Domain)) Override the default Domain, which is the remote server's Domain. This option may be needed to connect to some servers. It is also possible to specify the remote server name as the Domain, which will force the username and password to be authenticated against the remote server's local SAM instead of the Domain SAM. label(minusc) dit(bf(-c command string)) command string is a semicolon separated list of commands to be executed instead of prompting from stdin. link(bf(-N))(minusN) is implied by bf(-c). This is particularly useful in scripts, e.g. tt(-c 'lsaquery; enumusers -u'). enddit() label(OPERATIONS) manpagesection(OPERATIONS) Once the client is running, the user is presented with a prompt : tt(smb:\>) The prompt indicates that the client is ready and waiting to carry out a user command. Each command is a single word, optionally followed by parameters specific to that command. Command and parameters are space-delimited unless these notes specifically state otherwise. All commands are case-insensitive. Parameters to commands may or may not be case sensitive, depending on the command. You can specify names (e.g registry keys; user or group names; service names) which have spaces in them by quoting the name with double quotes, for example "dRMON SmartAgent". Parameters shown in square brackets (e.g., "[parameter]") are optional. If not given, the command will use suitable defaults. Parameters shown in angle brackets (e.g., "") are required. Note that all commands operating on the server are actually performed by issuing a request to the server. Thus the behavior may vary from server to server, depending on how the server was implemented. The commands available are listed in groups relating to different services: startdit() dit(Misccellaneous) startdit() label(questionmark) dit(bf(? [command])) If "command" is specified, the bf(?) command will display a brief informative message about the specified command. If no command is specified, a list of available commands will be displayed. label(exclaimationmark) dit(bf(! [shell command])) If "shell command" is specified, the bf(!) command will execute a shell locally and run the specified shell command. If no command is specified, a local shell will be run. label(exit) dit(bf(exit)) Terminate the connection with the server and exit from the program. label(help) dit(bf(help [command])) See the link(bf(?))(questionmark) command above. label(quit) dit(bf(quit)) See the link(bf(exit))(exit) command. enddit() dit(Event Log) startdit() label(eventlog) dit(bf(eventlog)) list the events enddit() dit(Service Control) These commands provide functionality similar to the Windows NT Service Control Manager. It is possible to use command-line completion (if you have the GNU readline library) for Service names, by pressing the tab key. startdit() label(svcenum) dit(bf(svcenum)) [-i] Lists Services. label(svcinfo) dit(bf(svcinfo)) Service Information label(svcstart) dit(bf(svcstart)) [arg 0] [arg 1] ... Start Service label(svcstop) dit(bf(svcstop)) Stop Service enddit() dit(Scheduler) startdit() label(at) dit(bf(at)) Scheduler control (at /? for syntax) enddit() dit(Registry) It is possible to use command-line completion (if you have the GNU readline library) for registry key and value names, by pressing the tab key. startdit() label(regenum) dit(bf(regenum)) Registry Enumeration (keys, values) label(regdeletekey) dit(bf(regdeletekey)) Registry Key Delete label(regcreatekey) dit(bf(regcreatekey)) [keyclass] Registry Key Create label(shutdown) dit(bf(shutdown)) [-m message] [-t timeout] [-r or --reboot] Server Shutdown label(regqueryval) dit(bf(regqueryval)) Registry Value Query label(regquerykey) dit(bf(regquerykey)) Registry Key Query label(regdeleteval) dit(bf(regdeleteval)) Registry Value Delete label(regcreateval) dit(bf(regcreateval)) Registry Key Create label(reggetsec) dit(bf(reggetsec)) Registry Key Security label(regtestsec) dit(bf(regtestsec)) Test Registry Key Security enddit() dit(Printing) It is possible to use command-line completion (if you have the GNU readline library) for Printer and job names, by pressing the tab key. startdit() label(spoolenum) dit(bf(spoolenum)) Enumerate Printers. This experimental command lists all printers available on a remote spooler service. label(spooljobs) dit(bf(spooljobs)) Enumerate Printer Jobs. This experimental command lists all jobs, and their status, currently queued on a remote spooler service. label(spoolopen) dit(bf(spoolopen)) Spool Printer Open Test. Experimental. enddit() dit(Server) startdit() label(time) dit(bf(time)) Display remote time label(brsinfo) dit(bf(brsinfo)) Browser Query Info label(wksinfo) dit(bf(wksinfo)) Workstation Query Info label(srvinfo) dit(bf(srvinfo)) Server Query Info label(srvsessions) dit(bf(srvsessions)) List sessions on a server label(srvshares) dit(bf(srvshares)) List shares on a server label(srvtransports) dit(bf(srvtransports)) List transports on a server label(srvconnections) dit(bf(srvconnections)) List connections on a server label(srvfiles) dit(bf(srvfiles)) List files on a server enddit() dit(Local Security Authority) startdit() label(lsaquery) dit(bf(lsaquery)) Query Info Policy (domain member or server). Obtains the SID and name of the SAM database that a server is responsible for (i.e a workstation's local SAM database or the PDC SAM database). Also obtains the SID and name of the SAM database that a server is a member of. label(lsaenumdomains) dit(bf(lsaenumdomains)) Enumerate Trusted Domains. Lists all Trusted and Trusting Domains with which the remote PDC has trust relationships established. label(lookupsids) dit(bf(lookupsids)) ... Resolve names from SIDs. Mostly to be used by developers or for troubleshooting, this command can take either Security Identifiers or Relative Identifiers, and look them up in the local SAM database (or look them up in a remote Trusting or Trusted PDC's SAM database if there is an appropriate Trust Relationship established). The result is a list of names, of the format: nl() tt([TRUST_DOMAIN\]name). nl() the link(bf(lsaquery))(lsaquery) command must have been issued first if you wish to use lookupsids to resolve RIDs. The only RIDs that will be resolved will be those in the SAM database of the server to which you are connected. label(lookupnames) dit(bf(lookupnames)) ... Resolve SIDs from names. Mostly to be used by developers or for troubleshooting, this command can take names of the following format: nl() tt([DOMAIN_NAME\]name). nl() The names, which can be user, group or alias names, will either be looked up in the local SAM database or in a remote Trusting or Trusted PDC's SAM database, if there is an appropriate Trust Relationship established. The optional Domain name component is the name of a SAM database, which can include a workstation's local SAM database or a Trusted Domain. Example Usage: nl() tt(lookupnames WKSTANAME\Administrator "Domain Guests") nl() label(querysecret) dit(bf(querysecret)) LSA Query Secret (developer use). This command only appears to work against NT4 SP3 and below. Due to its potential for misuse, it looks like Microsoft modified their implementation of the LsaRetrievePrivateData call to always return NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED. enddit() dit(NETLOGON) startdit() label(ntlogin) dit(bf(ntlogin)) [username] [password] NT Domain login test. Demonstrates how NT-style logins work. Mainly for developer usage, it can also be used to verify that a user can log in from a workstation. If you cannot ever get pam_ntdom to work, try this command first. label(domtrust) dit(bf(domtrust)) NT Inter-Domain test. Demonstrates how NT-style Inter-Domain Trust relationships work. Mainly for developer usage, it can also be used to verify that a Trust Relationship is correctly established with a remote PDC. label(samsync) dit(bf(samsync)) SAM Synchronisation Test (experimental). This command is used to manually synchronise a SAM database from a remote PDC, when Samba is set up as a Backup Domain Controller. enddit() dit(SAM Database) The SAM Database holds user, group and alias information. The commands listed below allow operations such as adding user accounts and changing their password; listing known Domains; listing user, group and alias accounts; listing the members of groups and aliases; adding or removing members from groups and aliases. The commands that make changes are protected by Access Control permissions on the remote server. You will therefore need to be in the right NT group in order to perform certain operations. If you find that a command fails with an NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED error and you think you should be able to perform that command, talk to your Administrator: your username is probably not in the correct NT alias or group (e.g Account Operators; Domain Admin). The commands that view information usually require less user privileges. However, a particular remote server may be configured with better security settings, so a command that succeeds on one server may not succeed on another. It is possible to use command-line completion (if you have the GNU readline library) for user, group, alias and domain names, by pressing the tab key. startdit() label(lookupdomain) dit(bf(lookupdomain)) Obtain SID for a local domain label(enumusers) dit(bf(enumusers)) SAM User Database Query (experimental!) label(addgroupmem) dit(bf(addgroupmem)) [user] [user] ... SAM Add Domain Group Member label(addaliasmem) dit(bf(addaliasmem)) [member sid1] [member sid2] ... SAM Add Domain Alias Member label(delgroupmem) dit(bf(delgroupmem)) [user] [user] ... SAM Delete Domain Group Member label(delaliasmem) dit(bf(delaliasmem)) [member sid1] [member sid2] ... SAM Delete Domain Alias Member label(creategroup) dit(bf(creategroup)) SAM Create Domain Group label(createalias) dit(bf(createalias)) SAM Create Domain Alias label(createuser) dit(bf(createuser)) SAM Create Domain User label(delgroup) dit(bf(delgroup)) SAM Delete Domain Group label(delalias) dit(bf(delalias)) SAM Delete Domain Alias label(ntpass) dit(bf(ntpass)) NT SAM Password Change label(samuserset2) dit(bf(samuserset2)) [-s acb_bits] SAM User Set Info 2 (experimental!) label(samuserset) dit(bf(samuserset)) [-p password] SAM User Set Info (experimental!) label(samuser) dit(bf(samuser)) SAM User Query (experimental!) label(samgroup) dit(bf(samgroup)) SAM Group Query (experimental!) label(samalias) dit(bf(samalias)) SAM Alias Query label(samaliasmem) dit(bf(samaliasmem)) SAM Alias Members label(samgroupmem) dit(bf(samgroupmem)) SAM Group Members label(samtest) dit(bf(samtest)) SAM User Encrypted RPC test (experimental!) label(enumaliases) dit(bf(enumaliases)) SAM Aliases Database Query (experimental!) label(enumdomains) dit(bf(enumdomains)) SAM Domains Database Query (experimental!) label(enumgroups) dit(bf(enumgroups)) SAM Group Database Query (experimental!) label(dominfo) dit(bf(dominfo)) SAM Query Domain Info label(dispinfo) dit(bf(dispinfo)) SAM Query Display Info enddit() enddit() label(NOTES) manpagesection(NOTES) Some servers are fussy about the case of supplied usernames, passwords, share names (AKA service names) and machine names. If you fail to connect try giving all parameters in uppercase. It is often necessary to use the link(bf(-n))(minusn) option when connecting to some types of servers. For example OS/2 LanManager insists on a valid NetBIOS name being used, so you need to supply a valid name that would be known to the server. rpcclient only works on servers that support MSRPC over SMB. This includes all versions of Windows NT, including the ports to Unix such as AS/U and AFPS. Support for MSRPC over SMB in other servers is currently rare and patchy, for example Samba 2.0 only supports a limited set of MSRPC commands, and some of those are not supported very well. label(ENVIRONMENTVARIABLES) manpagesection(ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES) The variable bf(USER) may contain the username of the person using the client. This information is used only if the protocol level is high enough to support session-level passwords. The variable bf(PASSWORD) may contain the password of the person using the client. This information is used only if the protocol level is high enough to support session-level passwords. label(INSTALLATION) manpagesection(INSTALLATION) The location of the client program is a matter for individual system administrators. The following are thus suggestions only. It is recommended that the rpcclient software be installed in the /usr/local/samba/bin or /usr/samba/bin directory, this directory readable by all, writeable only by root. The client program itself should be executable by all. The client should em(NOT) be setuid or setgid! The client log files should be put in a directory readable and writeable only by the user. To test the client, you will need to know the name of a running SMB/CIFS server. It is possible to run url(bf(smbd (8)))(smbd.8.html) an ordinary user - running that server as a daemon on a user-accessible port (typically any port number over 1024) would provide a suitable test server. label(DIAGNOSTICS) manpagesection(DIAGNOSTICS) Most diagnostics issued by the client are logged in a specified log file. The log file name is specified at compile time, but may be overridden on the command line. The number and nature of diagnostics available depends on the debug level used by the client. If you have problems, set the debug level to 3 and peruse the log files. label(VERSION) manpagesection(VERSION) This man page is correct for version 2.0 of the Samba suite. label(BUGS) manpagesection(BUGS) startdit() dit(WARNING!) The MSPRC over SMB code has been developed from examining Network traces. No documentation is available from the original creators (Microsoft) on how MSRPC over SMB works, or how the individual MSRPC services work. Microsoft's implementation of these services has been demonstrated (and reported) to be... a bit flakey in places. The development of Samba's implementation of these services is em(also) a bit rough, and as more of the services are understood, it can even result in versions of url(bf(smbd (8)))(smbd.8.html) and rpcclient that are backwards-incompatible for some commands or services. Additionally, the developers are sending reports to Microsoft, and problems found by or reported to Microsoft are fixed in Service Packs, which may also result in incompatibilities. It is therefore not guaranteed that the execution of an rpcclient command will work. It is also not guaranteed that the target server will continue to operate, i.e the execution of an MSRPC command may cause a remote service to fail, or even cause the remote server to fail. Usual rules apply, of course: the developers bear absolutely no responsibility or liability for the use, misuse, or lack of use of rpcclient, by any person or persons, whether legal, illegal, accidental, deliberate, intentional, malicious, curious, etc. This em(particularly) applies to the registry and SAM database commands. As you are using a command-line tool not a mouse-clicky tool, you have already proven yourself to be savvy, however if you don't know what you're doing, then em(don't do it!). dit(Command Completion) Command-completion (available if you have the GNU readline library) used on certain commands may not operate correctly if the word being completed (such as a registry key) contains a space. Typically, the name will be completed, but you will have to go back and put quotes round it, yourself. dit(SAM Database command-completion) Command-completion (available if you have the GNU readline library) of user, group and alias names does not work on remote Domains, which would normally be specified like this: nl() tt(DOMAIN_name\user_name). nl() The only names that can be completed in this fashion are the local names in the SAM database of the target server. dit(link(bf(spoolenum))(spoolenum)) Due to current limitations in the rpcclient MSRPC / SMB code, and due to the extremely poor MSRPC implementation (by Microsoft) of the spooler service, if there are a large number of printers (or the names / comment fields associated with the printers), this command will fail. The limitations require further research to be carried out; we're stuck with the poor \PIPE\spoolss design. endit() label(AUTHOR) manpageauthor() The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell email(samba-bugs@samba.org). Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed. The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open Source software, available at url(bf(ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/))(ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/)) and updated for the Samba2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. This man page was developed cut-and-paste style from the smbclient man page, by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton. email(samba-bugs@samba.org). See url(bf(samba (7)))(samba.7.html) to find out how to get a full list of contributors and details on how to submit bug reports, comments etc.