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3 <refentry id="testprns.1">
6 <refentrytitle>testprns</refentrytitle>
7 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
12 <refname>testprns</refname>
13 <refpurpose>check printer name for validity with smbd</refpurpose>
18 <command>testprns</command>
19 <arg choice="req">printername</arg>
20 <arg choice="opt">printcapname</arg>
25 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
27 <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
28 <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
30 <para><command>testprns</command> is a very simple test program
31 to determine whether a given printer name is valid for use in
32 a service to be provided by <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
33 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
35 <para>"Valid" in this context means "can be found in the
36 printcap specified". This program is very stupid - so stupid in
37 fact that it would be wisest to always specify the printcap file
44 <title>OPTIONS</title>
48 <term>printername</term>
49 <listitem><para>The printer name to validate.</para>
51 <para>Printer names are taken from the first field in each
52 record in the printcap file, single printer names and sets
53 of aliases separated by vertical bars ("|") are recognized.
54 Note that no validation or checking of the printcap syntax is
55 done beyond that required to extract the printer name. It may
56 be that the print spooling system is more forgiving or less
57 forgiving than <command>testprns</command>. However, if
58 <command>testprns</command> finds the printer then <citerefentry>
59 <refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
60 </citerefentry> should do so as well. </para></listitem>
64 <term>printcapname</term>
65 <listitem><para>This is the name of the printcap file within
66 which to search for the given printer name. </para>
68 <para>If no printcap name is specified <command>testprns
69 </command> will attempt to scan the printcap file name
70 specified at compile time. </para></listitem>
81 <term><filename>/etc/printcap</filename></term>
82 <listitem><para>This is usually the default printcap
83 file to scan. See <filename>printcap (5)</filename>.
91 <title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
93 <para>If a printer is found to be valid, the message
94 "Printer name <printername> is valid" will be
97 <para>If a printer is found to be invalid, the message
98 "Printer name <printername> is not valid" will be
101 <para>All messages that would normally be logged during
102 operation of the Samba daemons are logged by this program to the
103 file <filename>test.log</filename> in the current directory. The
104 program runs at debuglevel 3, so quite extensive logging
105 information is written. The log should be checked carefully
106 for errors and warnings. </para>
108 <para>Other messages are self-explanatory. </para>
113 <title>VERSION</title>
115 <para>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of
116 the Samba suite.</para>
120 <title>SEE ALSO</title>
121 <para><filename>printcap(5)</filename>,
122 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbd</refentrytitle>
123 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>smbclient</refentrytitle>
124 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry></para>
128 <title>AUTHOR</title>
130 <para>The original Samba software and related utilities
131 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
132 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
133 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
135 <para>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
136 The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
137 excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <ulink noescape="1" url="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/">
138 ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</ulink>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
139 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
140 Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2
141 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</para>