| 1 | <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>smbspool</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.75.2"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" title="smbspool"><a name="smbspool.8"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>smbspool — send a print file to an SMB printer</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">smbspool</code> {job} {user} {title} {copies} {options} [filename]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="DESCRIPTION"><a name="id266842"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a class="citerefentry" href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p>smbspool is a very small print spooling program that 
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| 2 |         sends a print file to an SMB printer. The command-line arguments 
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| 3 |         are position-dependent for compatibility with the Common UNIX 
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| 4 |         Printing System, but you can use smbspool with any printing system 
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| 5 |         or from a program or script.</p><p><span class="emphasis"><em>DEVICE URI</em></span></p><p>smbspool specifies the destination using a Uniform Resource 
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| 6 |         Identifier ("URI") with a method of "smb". This string can take 
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| 7 |         a number of forms:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>smb://server[:port]/printer</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>smb://workgroup/server[:port]/printer</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>smb://username:password@server[:port]/printer</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>smb://username:password@workgroup/server[:port]/printer</p></li></ul></div><p>smbspool tries to get the URI from the environment variable
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| 8 |         <code class="envar">DEVICE_URI</code>. If <code class="envar">DEVICE_URI</code> is not present, 
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| 9 |         smbspool will use argv[0] if that starts with <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">smb://</span>”</span> 
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| 10 |         or argv[1] if that is not the case.</p><p>Programs using the <code class="literal">exec(2)</code> functions can 
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| 11 |         pass the URI in argv[0], while shell scripts must set the 
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| 12 |         <code class="envar">DEVICE_URI</code> environment variable prior to
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| 13 |         running smbspool.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="OPTIONS"><a name="id265719"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>The job argument (argv[1]) contains the 
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| 14 |                 job ID number and is presently not used by smbspool.
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| 15 |                 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>The user argument (argv[2]) contains the 
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| 16 |                 print user's name and is presently not used by smbspool.
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| 17 |                 </p></li><li class="listitem"><p>The title argument (argv[3]) contains the 
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| 18 |                 job title string and is passed as the remote file name 
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| 19 |                 when sending the print job.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>The copies argument (argv[4]) contains 
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| 20 |                 the number of copies to be printed of the named file. If 
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| 21 |                 no filename is provided then this argument is not used by 
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| 22 |                 smbspool.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>The options argument (argv[5]) contains 
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| 23 |                 the print options in a single string and is currently 
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| 24 |                 not used by smbspool.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>The filename argument (argv[6]) contains the 
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| 25 |                 name of the file to print. If this argument is not specified 
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| 26 |                 then the print file is read from the standard input.</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="refsect1" title="VERSION"><a name="id265763"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="SEE ALSO"><a name="id265773"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a class="citerefentry" href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a> and <a class="citerefentry" href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a>.</p></div><div class="refsect1" title="AUTHOR"><a name="id265798"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p><code class="literal">smbspool</code> was written by Michael Sweet 
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| 27 |         at Easy Software Products.</p><p>The original Samba software and related utilities 
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| 28 |         were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
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| 29 |         by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar 
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| 30 |         to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. 
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| 31 |         The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another 
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| 32 |         excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <a class="ulink" href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/" target="_top">
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| 33 |         ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</a>) and updated for the Samba 2.0 
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| 34 |         release by Jeremy Allison.  The conversion to DocBook for 
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| 35 |         Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2
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| 36 |         for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</p></div></div></body></html>
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