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<refmeta>
        <refentrytitle>smbspool</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
        <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
        <refmiscinfo class="manual">System Administration tools</refmiscinfo>
        <refmiscinfo class="version">3.3</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>


<refnamediv>
        <refname>smbspool</refname>
        <refpurpose>send a print file to an SMB printer</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>
        <cmdsynopsis>
                <command>smbspool</command>
                <arg choice="req">job</arg> 
                <arg choice="req">user</arg> 
                <arg choice="req">title</arg> 
                <arg choice="req">copies</arg> 
                <arg choice="req">options</arg> 
                <arg choice="opt">filename</arg> 
        </cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1>
        <title>DESCRIPTION</title>

        <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>

        <para>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.</para>

        <para><emphasis>DEVICE URI</emphasis></para>

        <para>smbspool specifies the destination using a Uniform Resource 
        Identifier ("URI") with a method of "smb". This string can take 
        a number of forms:</para>

        <itemizedlist>
                <listitem><para>smb://server[:port]/printer</para></listitem>
                <listitem><para>smb://workgroup/server[:port]/printer</para></listitem>
                <listitem><para>smb://username:password@server[:port]/printer</para></listitem>
                <listitem><para>smb://username:password@workgroup/server[:port]/printer</para></listitem>
        </itemizedlist>

        <para>smbspool tries to get the URI from the environment variable
        <envar>DEVICE_URI</envar>. If <envar>DEVICE_URI</envar> is not present, 
        smbspool will use argv[0] if that starts with <quote>smb://</quote> 
        or argv[1] if that is not the case.</para>

        <para>Programs using the <command>exec(2)</command> functions can 
        pass the URI in argv[0], while shell scripts must set the 
        <envar>DEVICE_URI</envar> environment variable prior to
        running smbspool.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
        <title>OPTIONS</title>

        <itemizedlist>
                <listitem><para>The job argument (argv[1]) contains the 
                job ID number and is presently not used by smbspool.
                </para></listitem>

                <listitem><para>The user argument (argv[2]) contains the 
                print user's name and is presently not used by smbspool.
                </para></listitem>

                <listitem><para>The title argument (argv[3]) contains the 
                job title string and is passed as the remote file name 
                when sending the print job.</para></listitem>

                <listitem><para>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.</para></listitem>

                <listitem><para>The options argument (argv[5]) contains 
                the print options in a single string and is currently 
                not used by smbspool.</para></listitem>

                <listitem><para>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.</para>
                </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
</refsect1>


<refsect1>
        <title>VERSION</title>

        <para>This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
        <title>SEE ALSO</title>
        <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> and <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
        <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
</refsect1>

<refsect1>
        <title>AUTHOR</title>

        <para><command>smbspool</command> was written by Michael Sweet 
        at Easy Software Products.</para>
        
        <para>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.</para>
        
        <para>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 <ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
        ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) 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.</para>
</refsect1>

</refentry>