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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-dependent for com-
  patibility 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  variableDEVICE_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 theDEVICE_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 print-
     ed	 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  single
     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 pro-
  ject 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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