1 <samba:parameter name="addprinter command"
4 advanced="1" developer="1"
5 xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc">
7 <para>With the introduction of MS-RPC based printing
8 support for Windows NT/2000 clients in Samba 2.2, The MS Add
9 Printer Wizard (APW) icon is now also available in the
10 "Printers..." folder displayed a share listing. The APW
11 allows for printers to be add remotely to a Samba or Windows
12 NT/2000 print server.</para>
14 <para>For a Samba host this means that the printer must be
15 physically added to the underlying printing system.
16 The <parameter moreinfo="none">addprinter command</parameter>
17 defines a script to be run which
18 will perform the necessary operations for adding the printer
19 to the print system and to add the appropriate service definition
20 to the <filename moreinfo="none">smb.conf</filename> file in order that it can be
21 shared by <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
22 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
24 <para>The <parameter moreinfo="none">addprinter command</parameter> is
25 automatically invoked with the following parameter (in
29 <listitem><para><parameter moreinfo="none">printer name</parameter></para></listitem>
30 <listitem><para><parameter moreinfo="none">share name</parameter></para></listitem>
31 <listitem><para><parameter moreinfo="none">port name</parameter></para></listitem>
32 <listitem><para><parameter moreinfo="none">driver name</parameter></para></listitem>
33 <listitem><para><parameter moreinfo="none">location</parameter></para></listitem>
34 <listitem><para><parameter moreinfo="none">Windows 9x driver location</parameter></para></listitem>
37 <para>All parameters are filled in from the PRINTER_INFO_2 structure sent
38 by the Windows NT/2000 client with one exception. The "Windows 9x
39 driver location" parameter is included for backwards compatibility
40 only. The remaining fields in the structure are generated from answers
41 to the APW questions.</para>
43 <para>Once the <parameter moreinfo="none">addprinter command</parameter> has
44 been executed, <command moreinfo="none">smbd</command> will reparse the <filename moreinfo="none">
45 smb.conf</filename> to determine if the share defined by the APW
46 exists. If the sharename is still invalid, then <command moreinfo="none">smbd
47 </command> will return an ACCESS_DENIED error to the client.</para>
50 The <parameter moreinfo="none">addprinter command</parameter> program
51 can output a single line of text,
52 which Samba will set as the port the new printer is connected to.
53 If this line isn't output, Samba won't reload its printer shares.
58 <related>deleteprinter command</related>
59 <related>printing</related>
60 <related>show add printer wizard</related>
62 <value type="default"></value>
63 <value type="example">/usr/bin/addprinter</value>