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1 perry 1 TESTPRNS
2 !!!TESTPRNS
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 OPTIONS
7 FILES
8 DIAGNOSTICS
9 VERSION
10 SEE ALSO
11 AUTHOR
12 ----
13 !!NAME
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16 testprns - check printer name for validity with smbd
17 !!SYNOPSIS
18
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20 __testprns printername__ [[ __printcapname__
21 ]
22 !!DESCRIPTION
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25 This tool is part of the Sambasuite.
26
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28 __testprns__ is a very simple test program to determine
29 whether a given printer name is valid for use in a service
30 to be provided by __smbd(8)__.
31
32
33 !!OPTIONS
34
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36 __printername__
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39 The printer name to validate.
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42 Printer names are taken from the first field in each record
43 in the printcap file, single printer names and sets of
44 aliases separated by vertical bars (
45 testprns__.
46 However, if __testprns__ finds the printer then
47 __smbd__ should do so as well.
48
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50 __printcapname__
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53 This is the name of the printcap file within which to search
54 for the given printer name.
55
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57 If no printcap name is specified __testprns__ will
58 attempt to scan the printcap file name specified at compile
59 time.
60 !!FILES
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63 ''/etc/printcap''
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66 This is usually the default printcap file to scan. See
67 ''printcap (5)''.
68 !!DIAGNOSTICS
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71 If a printer is found to be valid, the message
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74 If a printer is found to be invalid, the message
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77 All messages that would normally be logged during operation
78 of the Samba daemons are logged by this program to the file
79 ''test.log'' in the current directory. The program runs
80 at debuglevel 3, so quite extensive logging information is
81 written. The log should be checked carefully for errors and
82 warnings.
83
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85 Other messages are self-explanatory.
86 !!VERSION
87
88
89 This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba
90 suite.
91 !!SEE ALSO
92
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94 ''printcap(5)'', __smbd(8)__,
95 __smbclient(1)__
96 !!AUTHOR
97
98
99 The original Samba software and related utilities were
100 created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the
101 Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the
102 Linux kernel is developed.
103
104
105 The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The
106 man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
107 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
108 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/
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