smbspool(8)

NAME

   smbspool - send a print file to an SMB printer

SYNOPSIS

   smbspool {job} {user} {title} {copies} {options} [filename]

DESCRIPTION

   This tool is part of the samba(7) 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:

   *   smb://server[:port]/printer

   *   smb://workgroup/server[:port]/printer

   *   smb://username:password@server[:port]/printer

   *   smb://domain\username:password@server[:port]/printer

   *   smb://username:password@workgroup/server[:port]/printer

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

   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.

   smbspool will accept URI escaped characters. This allows setting a
   domain in the username, or space in the printer name. For example
   smb://domain%5Cusername/printer%20name

OPTIONS

   *   The job argument (argv[1]) contains the job ID number and is
       presently not used by smbspool.

   *   The user argument (argv[2]) contains the print user's name and is
       presently not used by smbspool.

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

   *   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.

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

   *   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 3 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/) 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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