SMBSPOOL(1M) System Administration tools SMBSPOOL(1M)NAMEsmbspool - send a print file to an SMB printer
SYNOPSISsmbspool {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.
· 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 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSOsmbd(1M) and samba(7).
AUTHORsmbspool 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.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │ SUNWsmbar, SUNWsmbac, SUNWsmbau │
├────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │ External │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘
NOTES
Source code for Samba is available in the SUNWsmbaS package.
Samba(7) delivers the set of four SMF(5) services as can be seen from
the following example:
$ svcs samba wins winbind swat
STATE STIME FMRI
disabled Apr_21 svc:/network/samba:default
disabled Apr_21 svc:/network/winbind:default
disabled Apr_21 svc:/network/wins:default
disabled Apr_21 svc:/network/swat:default
where the services are:
"samba"
runs the smbd daemon managing the CIFS sessions
"wins"
runs the nmbd daemon enabling the browsing (WINS)
"winbind"
runs the winbindd daemon making the domain idmap
"swat"
Samba Web Administration Tool is a service providing access to
browser-based Samba administration interface and on-line
documentation. The service runs on software loopback network
interface on port 901/tcp, i.e. opening "http://localhost:901/" in
browser will access the SWAT service on local machine.
Please note: SWAT uses HTTP Basic Authentication scheme where user name
and passwords are sent over the network in clear text. In the SWAT case
the user name is root. Transferring such sensitive data is advisable
only on the software loopback network interface or over secure
networks.
Samba 3.6 04/10/2012 SMBSPOOL(1M)
