smbspool(8)

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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 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.

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     •
        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 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  Pro-
     ducts.

     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 Doc-
     Book XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.

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