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TESTPRNS(1)


NAME

  testprns - check printer name for validity with smbd


SYNOPSIS

  testprns printername [ printcapname ]


DESCRIPTION

  This tool is part of the  Samba suite.

  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)

  "Valid" in this context means "can be found in the printcap specified".
  This program is very stupid - so stupid in fact that it would be wisest to
  always specify the printcap file to use.


OPTIONS

  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 ("|") are recognized. Note that no validation or
       checking of the printcap syntax is done beyond that required to
       extract the printer name. It may be that the print spooling system is
       more forgiving or less forgiving than 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.


FILES

  /etc/printcap
       This is usually the default printcap file to scan. See printcap (5).


DIAGNOSTICS

  If a printer is found to be valid, the message "Printer name <printername>
  is valid" will be displayed.

  If a printer is found to be invalid, the message "Printer name
  <printername> is not valid" will be displayed.

  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.


VERSION

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


SEE ALSO

  printcap(5), smbd(8) smbclient(1)


AUTHOR

  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/
  <URL: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

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