| 1 | <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>smbspool</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.68.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="smbspool.8"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>smbspool — send a print file to an SMB printer</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">smbspool</code> {job} {user} {title} {copies} {options} [filename]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id231133"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p>smbspool is a very small print spooling program that |
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| 2 | sends a print file to an SMB printer. The command-line arguments |
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| 3 | are position-dependent for compatibility with the Common UNIX |
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| 4 | Printing System, but you can use smbspool with any printing system |
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| 5 | or from a program or script.</p><p><span class="emphasis"><em>DEVICE URI</em></span></p><p>smbspool specifies the destination using a Uniform Resource |
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| 6 | Identifier ("URI") with a method of "smb". This string can take |
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| 7 | a number of forms:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>smb://server[:port]/printer</p></li><li><p>smb://workgroup/server[:port]/printer</p></li><li><p>smb://username:password@server[:port]/printer</p></li><li><p>smb://username:password@workgroup/server[:port]/printer</p></li></ul></div><p>smbspool tries to get the URI from the environment variable |
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| 8 | <code class="envar">DEVICE_URI</code>. If <code class="envar">DEVICE_URI</code> is not present, |
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| 9 | smbspool will use argv[0] if that starts with “<span class="quote">smb://</span>” |
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| 10 | or argv[1] if that is not the case.</p><p>Programs using the <span><strong class="command">exec(2)</strong></span> functions can |
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| 11 | pass the URI in argv[0], while shell scripts must set the |
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| 12 | <code class="envar">DEVICE_URI</code> environment variable prior to |
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| 13 | running smbspool.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id231415"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>The job argument (argv[1]) contains the |
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| 14 | job ID number and is presently not used by smbspool. |
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| 15 | </p></li><li><p>The user argument (argv[2]) contains the |
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| 16 | print user's name and is presently not used by smbspool. |
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| 17 | </p></li><li><p>The title argument (argv[3]) contains the |
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| 18 | job title string and is passed as the remote file name |
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| 19 | when sending the print job.</p></li><li><p>The copies argument (argv[4]) contains |
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| 20 | the number of copies to be printed of the named file. If |
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| 21 | no filename is provided then this argument is not used by |
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| 22 | smbspool.</p></li><li><p>The options argument (argv[5]) contains |
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| 23 | the print options in a single string and is currently |
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| 24 | not used by smbspool.</p></li><li><p>The filename argument (argv[6]) contains the |
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| 25 | name of the file to print. If this argument is not specified |
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| 26 | then the print file is read from the standard input.</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id231459"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id231470"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a> and <a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a>.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id231494"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p><span><strong class="command">smbspool</strong></span> was written by Michael Sweet |
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| 27 | at Easy Software Products.</p><p>The original Samba software and related utilities |
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| 28 | were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed |
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| 29 | by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar |
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| 30 | to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. |
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| 31 | The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another |
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| 32 | excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <a href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/" target="_top"> |
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| 33 | ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</a>) and updated for the Samba 2.0 |
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| 34 | release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for |
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| 35 | Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 |
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| 36 | for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</p></div></div></body></html> |
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