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6 <refentry id="testprns.1">
9 <refentrytitle>testprns</refentrytitle>
10 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
15 <refname>testprns</refname>
16 <refpurpose>check printer name for validity with smbd</refpurpose>
21 <command>testprns</command>
22 <arg choice="req">printername</arg>
23 <arg choice="opt">printcapname</arg>
28 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
30 <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
31 <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
33 <para><command>testprns</command> is a very simple test program
34 to determine whether a given printer name is valid for use in
35 a service to be provided by <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
36 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
38 <para>"Valid" in this context means "can be found in the
39 printcap specified". This program is very stupid - so stupid in
40 fact that it would be wisest to always specify the printcap file
47 <title>OPTIONS</title>
51 <term>printername</term>
52 <listitem><para>The printer name to validate.</para>
54 <para>Printer names are taken from the first field in each
55 record in the printcap file, single printer names and sets
56 of aliases separated by vertical bars ("|") are recognized.
57 Note that no validation or checking of the printcap syntax is
58 done beyond that required to extract the printer name. It may
59 be that the print spooling system is more forgiving or less
60 forgiving than <command>testprns</command>. However, if
61 <command>testprns</command> finds the printer then <citerefentry>
62 <refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
63 </citerefentry> should do so as well. </para></listitem>
67 <term>printcapname</term>
68 <listitem><para>This is the name of the printcap file within
69 which to search for the given printer name. </para>
71 <para>If no printcap name is specified <command>testprns
72 </command> will attempt to scan the printcap file name
73 specified at compile time. </para></listitem>
84 <term><filename>/etc/printcap</filename></term>
85 <listitem><para>This is usually the default printcap
86 file to scan. See <filename>printcap (5)</filename>.
94 <title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
96 <para>If a printer is found to be valid, the message
97 "Printer name <printername> is valid" will be
100 <para>If a printer is found to be invalid, the message
101 "Printer name <printername> is not valid" will be
104 <para>All messages that would normally be logged during
105 operation of the Samba daemons are logged by this program to the
106 file <filename>test.log</filename> in the current directory. The
107 program runs at debuglevel 3, so quite extensive logging
108 information is written. The log should be checked carefully
109 for errors and warnings. </para>
111 <para>Other messages are self-explanatory. </para>
116 <title>VERSION</title>
118 <para>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of
119 the Samba suite.</para>
123 <title>SEE ALSO</title>
124 <para><filename>printcap(5)</filename>,
125 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
126 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle>
127 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></para>
131 <title>AUTHOR</title>
133 <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
134 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
135 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
136 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
138 <para>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
139 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
140 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <ulink noescape="1" url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
141 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
142 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
143 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2
144 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>