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| 2 | .\" Title: smbspool
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| 3 | .\" Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section]
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| 4 | .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.75.2 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
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| 5 | .\" Date: 10/24/2011
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| 6 | .\" Manual: System Administration tools
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| 7 | .\" Source: Samba 3.5
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| 8 | .\" Language: English
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| 9 | .\"
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| 10 | .TH "SMBSPOOL" "8" "10/24/2011" "Samba 3\&.5" "System Administration tools"
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| 11 | .\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
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| 12 | .\" * set default formatting
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| 14 | .\" disable hyphenation
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| 17 | .ad l
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| 18 | .\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
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| 19 | .\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE *
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| 20 | .\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
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| 21 | .SH "NAME"
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| 22 | smbspool \- send a print file to an SMB printer
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| 23 | .SH "SYNOPSIS"
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| 24 | .HP \w'\ 'u
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| 25 | smbspool {job} {user} {title} {copies} {options} [filename]
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| 26 | .SH "DESCRIPTION"
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| 27 | .PP
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| 28 | This tool is part of the
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| 29 | \fBsamba\fR(7)
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| 30 | suite\&.
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| 31 | .PP
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| 32 | 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\&.
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| 33 | .PP
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| 34 | \fIDEVICE URI\fR
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| 35 | .PP
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| 36 | smbspool specifies the destination using a Uniform Resource Identifier ("URI") with a method of "smb"\&. This string can take a number of forms:
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| 37 | .sp
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| 38 | .RS 4
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| 39 | .ie n \{\
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| 40 | \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
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| 41 | .\}
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| 42 | .el \{\
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| 43 | .sp -1
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| 44 | .IP \(bu 2.3
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| 45 | .\}
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| 46 | smb://server[:port]/printer
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| 47 | .RE
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| 48 | .sp
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| 49 | .RS 4
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| 50 | .ie n \{\
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| 51 | \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
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| 52 | .\}
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| 53 | .el \{\
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| 54 | .sp -1
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| 55 | .IP \(bu 2.3
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| 56 | .\}
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| 57 | smb://workgroup/server[:port]/printer
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| 58 | .RE
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| 59 | .sp
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| 60 | .RS 4
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| 61 | .ie n \{\
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| 62 | \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
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| 63 | .\}
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| 64 | .el \{\
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| 65 | .sp -1
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| 66 | .IP \(bu 2.3
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| 67 | .\}
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| 68 | smb://username:password@server[:port]/printer
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| 69 | .RE
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| 70 | .sp
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| 71 | .RS 4
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| 72 | .ie n \{\
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| 73 | \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
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| 74 | .\}
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| 75 | .el \{\
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| 76 | .sp -1
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| 77 | .IP \(bu 2.3
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| 78 | .\}
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| 79 | smb://username:password@workgroup/server[:port]/printer
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| 80 | .sp
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| 81 | .RE
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| 82 | .PP
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| 83 | smbspool tries to get the URI from the environment variable
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| 84 | \fBDEVICE_URI\fR\&. If
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| 85 | \fBDEVICE_URI\fR
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| 86 | is not present, smbspool will use argv[0] if that starts with
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| 87 | \(lqsmb://\(rq
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| 88 | or argv[1] if that is not the case\&.
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| 89 | .PP
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| 90 | Programs using the
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| 91 | exec(2)
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| 92 | functions can pass the URI in argv[0], while shell scripts must set the
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| 93 | \fBDEVICE_URI\fR
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| 94 | environment variable prior to running smbspool\&.
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| 95 | .SH "OPTIONS"
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| 96 | .sp
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| 97 | .RS 4
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| 98 | .ie n \{\
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| 99 | \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
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| 100 | .\}
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| 101 | .el \{\
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| 102 | .sp -1
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| 103 | .IP \(bu 2.3
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| 104 | .\}
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| 105 | The job argument (argv[1]) contains the job ID number and is presently not used by smbspool\&.
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| 106 | .RE
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| 107 | .sp
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| 108 | .RS 4
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| 109 | .ie n \{\
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| 110 | \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
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| 111 | .\}
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| 112 | .el \{\
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| 113 | .sp -1
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| 114 | .IP \(bu 2.3
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| 115 | .\}
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| 116 | The user argument (argv[2]) contains the print user\'s name and is presently not used by smbspool\&.
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| 117 | .RE
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| 118 | .sp
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| 119 | .RS 4
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| 120 | .ie n \{\
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| 121 | \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
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| 122 | .\}
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| 123 | .el \{\
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| 124 | .sp -1
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| 125 | .IP \(bu 2.3
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| 126 | .\}
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| 127 | The title argument (argv[3]) contains the job title string and is passed as the remote file name when sending the print job\&.
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| 128 | .RE
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| 129 | .sp
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| 130 | .RS 4
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| 131 | .ie n \{\
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| 132 | \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
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| 133 | .\}
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| 134 | .el \{\
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| 135 | .sp -1
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| 136 | .IP \(bu 2.3
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| 137 | .\}
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| 138 | 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\&.
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| 139 | .RE
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| 140 | .sp
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| 141 | .RS 4
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| 142 | .ie n \{\
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| 143 | \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
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| 144 | .\}
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| 145 | .el \{\
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| 146 | .sp -1
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| 147 | .IP \(bu 2.3
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| 148 | .\}
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| 149 | The options argument (argv[5]) contains the print options in a single string and is currently not used by smbspool\&.
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| 150 | .RE
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| 151 | .sp
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| 152 | .RS 4
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| 153 | .ie n \{\
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| 154 | \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
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| 155 | .\}
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| 156 | .el \{\
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| 157 | .sp -1
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| 158 | .IP \(bu 2.3
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| 159 | .\}
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| 160 | 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\&.
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| 161 | .SH "VERSION"
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| 162 | .PP
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| 163 | This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite\&.
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| 164 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 165 | .PP
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| 166 | \fBsmbd\fR(8)
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| 167 | and
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| 168 | \fBsamba\fR(7)\&.
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| 169 | .SH "AUTHOR"
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| 170 | .PP
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| 171 | smbspool
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| 172 | was written by Michael Sweet at Easy Software Products\&.
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| 173 | .PP
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| 174 | 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\&.
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| 175 | .PP
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| 176 | 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
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| 177 | 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\&.
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