how to publish samba printers in active directory

I'm running a cups print server on debian and sharing the printers for the windows client using samba! although printers are being added per machine at login time automatically, i still wanted to have the printers listed in the active directory, so what to do ? i googled this and quickly found this link! which suggests that doing:

net ads printer publish -Uadministrator%secret

would do the job!

well, it did not for me :S , it fails silently with return value of 255 ! arg ... why does it fail silently ?? WHY! why cant it scream out some error message !! , anyway, adding -d with an appropriate value ( i used 3 ) made it more meaningful and i got some useful message:

Unable to open printer \\localservername\printername, error is WERR_INVALID_PARAM.


after fiddling around for a while, it seems that this error is caused because there is no driver published for this printer, so i used the following command to fix this:


cupsaddsmb -U dom\user printername


now retrying the net ads command mentioned earlier got me a diffrent error !


Unable to do enumdataex on \\cupsserver\printername, error is WERR_INVALID_PARAM.


apparenly it was not really useful, i could not find any solution looking this up in google, any body knows ? anybody knows? please let me know !

anyway, after few hours of looking this up and finding nothing useful, i found a diffrent syntax (apparently older one) to try things out, its:


net rpc printer publish publish printername -U dom\\user


this was also useless ! tried various combination of options fro net rpc and net ads, got me anothe bunch of various errors/messages such as:
ads_publish_printer: Object class violation
all lead me to nowhere ... sadly :(

then, this post caught my attention! although not directly relevant! i though i might try to things from the windows server !

So i went to the windows machine, logged in a privileged user, start -> run -> \\cupsservername -> printers and faxes -> printer name -> right click -> properties -> sharing -> checked list in directory check box -> apply -> tadaaaa .

Now its published ! i found it awful that i could not do it using samba tools :( and i will lookup a way to do it in batch now with windows command line/script.