TESTPRNS
NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS FILES DIAGNOSTICS VERSION SEE ALSO AUTHOR
testprns - check printer name for validity with smbd
testprns printername [ __printcapname__?
This tool is part of the Sambasuite.
testprns is a very simple test program to determine whether a given printer name is valid for use in a service to be provided by __smbd(8)?__.
printername
The printer name to validate.
Printer names are taken from the first field in each record in the printcap file, single printer names and sets of aliases separated by vertical bars ( testprns. However, if testprns finds the printer then smbd__ should do so as well.
printcapname
This is the name of the printcap file within which to search for the given printer name.
If no printcap name is specified testprns will attempt to scan the printcap file name specified at compile time.
/etc/printcap
This is usually the default printcap file to scan. See printcap (5).
If a printer is found to be valid, the message
If a printer is found to be invalid, the message
All messages that would normally be logged during operation of the Samba daemons are logged by this program to the file test.log in the current directory. The program runs at debuglevel 3, so quite extensive logging information is written. The log should be checked carefully for errors and warnings.
Other messages are self-explanatory.
This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba suite.
printcap(5), __smbd(8)?, smbclient(1)__
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/
One page links to testprns(1):
