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NAME
smbspool - send print file to an SMB printer
SYNOPSIS
smbspool [ job ] [ user ] [ title ] [ copies ] [ options
] [ filename ]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the Samba 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:
o smb://server/printer
o smb://workgroup/server/printer
o smb://username:password@server/printer
o smb://username:password@workgroup/server/printer
smbspool tries to get the URI from argv[0]. If argv[0]
contains the name of the program then it looks in the
DEVICE_URI environment variable.
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
o The job argument (argv[1]) contains the job ID number and
is presently not used by smbspool.
o The user argument (argv[2]) contains the print user's name
and is presently not used by smbspool.
o The title argument (argv[3]) contains the job title string
and is passed as the remote file name when sending the
print job.
o The copies argument (argv[4]) contains the number of
copies to be printed of the named file. If no filename is
provided than this argument is not used by smbspool.
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o The options argument (argv[5]) contains the print options
in a single string and is presently not used by smbspool.
o 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 2.2 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/
<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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