smbspool

SMBSPOOL(8)							  SMBSPOOL(8)



NAME
       smbspool - send a print file to an SMB printer

SYNOPSIS
       smbspool {job} {user} {title} {copies} {options} [filename]

DESCRIPTION
       This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

       smbspool	 is  a	very  small print spooling program that sends a print
       file to an SMB printer. The command-line arguments are position-depen-
       dent  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
       ("URI") with a method of "smb". This  string  can  take	a  number  of
       forms:

       ·  smb://server[:port]/printer

       ·  smb://workgroup/server[:port]/printer

       ·  smb://username:password@server[:port]/printer

       ·  smb://username:password@workgroup/server[:port]/printer

       smbspool	  tries	  to  get  the	URI  from  the	environment  variable
       DEVICE_URI. If DEVICE_URI is not present, smbspool will use argv[0] if
       that starts with smb:// or argv[1] if that is not the case.

       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 then this
	  argument is not used by smbspool.

       ·  The options argument (argv[5]) contains the print options in a sin-
	  gle string and is currently 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 3.0 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/) and
       updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to
       DocBook	for  Samba  2.2	 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to
       DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.




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