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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.
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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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