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6 <refentrytitle>smbspool</refentrytitle>
7 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
8 <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
9 <refmiscinfo class="manual">System Administration tools</refmiscinfo>
10 <refmiscinfo class="version">3.5</refmiscinfo>
15 <refname>smbspool</refname>
16 <refpurpose>send a print file to an SMB printer</refpurpose>
21 <command>smbspool</command>
22 <arg choice="req">job</arg>
23 <arg choice="req">user</arg>
24 <arg choice="req">title</arg>
25 <arg choice="req">copies</arg>
26 <arg choice="req">options</arg>
27 <arg choice="opt">filename</arg>
32 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
34 <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
35 <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
37 <para>smbspool is a very small print spooling program that
38 sends a print file to an SMB printer. The command-line arguments
39 are position-dependent for compatibility with the Common UNIX
40 Printing System, but you can use smbspool with any printing system
41 or from a program or script.</para>
43 <para><emphasis>DEVICE URI</emphasis></para>
45 <para>smbspool specifies the destination using a Uniform Resource
46 Identifier ("URI") with a method of "smb". This string can take
47 a number of forms:</para>
50 <listitem><para>smb://server[:port]/printer</para></listitem>
51 <listitem><para>smb://workgroup/server[:port]/printer</para></listitem>
52 <listitem><para>smb://username:password@server[:port]/printer</para></listitem>
53 <listitem><para>smb://username:password@workgroup/server[:port]/printer</para></listitem>
56 <para>smbspool tries to get the URI from the environment variable
57 <envar>DEVICE_URI</envar>. If <envar>DEVICE_URI</envar> is not present,
58 smbspool will use argv[0] if that starts with <quote>smb://</quote>
59 or argv[1] if that is not the case.</para>
61 <para>Programs using the <command>exec(2)</command> functions can
62 pass the URI in argv[0], while shell scripts must set the
63 <envar>DEVICE_URI</envar> environment variable prior to
64 running smbspool.</para>
68 <title>OPTIONS</title>
71 <listitem><para>The job argument (argv[1]) contains the
72 job ID number and is presently not used by smbspool.
75 <listitem><para>The user argument (argv[2]) contains the
76 print user's name and is presently not used by smbspool.
79 <listitem><para>The title argument (argv[3]) contains the
80 job title string and is passed as the remote file name
81 when sending the print job.</para></listitem>
83 <listitem><para>The copies argument (argv[4]) contains
84 the number of copies to be printed of the named file. If
85 no filename is provided then this argument is not used by
86 smbspool.</para></listitem>
88 <listitem><para>The options argument (argv[5]) contains
89 the print options in a single string and is currently
90 not used by smbspool.</para></listitem>
92 <listitem><para>The filename argument (argv[6]) contains the
93 name of the file to print. If this argument is not specified
94 then the print file is read from the standard input.</para>
101 <title>VERSION</title>
103 <para>This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.</para>
107 <title>SEE ALSO</title>
108 <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
109 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> and <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
110 <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
114 <title>AUTHOR</title>
116 <para><command>smbspool</command> was written by Michael Sweet
117 at Easy Software Products.</para>
119 <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
120 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
121 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
122 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
124 <para>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
125 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
126 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <ulink url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
127 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
128 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
129 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2
130 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>