SMBSPOOL

SMBSPOOL

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS VERSION SEE ALSO AUTHOR

NAME

smbspool - send print file to an SMB printer

SYNOPSIS

smbspool [ __job__? [ __user__? __title__? [ __copies__? [ __options__? __filename__?

DESCRIPTION

This tool is part of the Sambasuite.

smbspool is a very small print spooling program that sends a print file to an SMB printer. The command-line arguments are position-dependent for compatibility with the Common UNIX Printing System, but you can use smbspool with any printing system or from a program or script.

DEVICE URI

smbspool specifies the destination using a Uniform Resource Identifier (

smb://server/printer

smb://workgroup/server/printer

smb://username:password@server/printer

smb://username:password@workgroup/server/printer

smbspool tries to get the URI from argv[0?. If argv[0? contains the name of the program then it looks in the DEVICE_URI environment variable.

Programs using the __exec(2)? functions can pass the URI in argv[0?, while shell scripts must set the DEVICE_URI__ environment variable prior to running smbspool.

OPTIONS

The job argument (argv[1?) contains the job ID number and is presently not used by smbspool.

The user argument (argv[2?) contains the print user's name and is presently not used by smbspool.

The title argument (argv[3?) contains the job title string and is passed as the remote file name when sending the print job.

The copies argument (argv[4?) contains the number of copies to be printed of the named file. If no filename is provided than this argument is not used by smbspool.

The options argument (argv[5?) contains the print options in a single string and is presently not used by smbspool.

The filename argument (argv[6?) contains the name of the file to print. If this argument is not specified then the print file is read from the standard input.

VERSION

This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO

__smbd(8)?__, and samba(7).

AUTHOR

smbspool was written by Michael Sweet at Easy Software Products.

The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. 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 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/