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   1 <html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>smbspool</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="smbspool.8"></a><div class="titlepage"><div></div><div></div></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>smbspool &#8212; send a print file to an SMB printer</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><tt class="command">smbspool</tt>  {job} {user} {title} {copies} {options} [filename]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a href="Samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">Samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p>smbspool is a very small print spooling program that
   2         sends a print file to an SMB printer. The command-line arguments
   3         are position-dependent for compatibility with the Common UNIX
   4         Printing System, but you can use smbspool with any printing system
   5         or from a program or script.</p><p><span class="emphasis"><em>DEVICE URI</em></span></p><p>smbspool specifies the destination using a Uniform Resource
   6         Identifier (&quot;URI&quot;) with a method of &quot;smb&quot;. This string can take
   7         a number of forms:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>smb://server/printer</p></li><li><p>smb://workgroup/server/printer</p></li><li><p>smb://username:password@server/printer</p></li><li><p>smb://username:password@workgroup/server/printer</p></li></ul></div><p>smbspool tries to get the URI from argv[0]. If argv[0]
   8         contains the name of the program then it looks in the <tt class="envar">
   9         DEVICE_URI</tt> environment variable.</p><p>Programs using the <b class="command">exec(2)</b> functions can
  10         pass the URI in argv[0], while shell scripts must set the
  11         <tt class="envar">DEVICE_URI</tt> environment variable prior to
  12         running smbspool.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>The job argument (argv[1]) contains the
  13                 job ID number and is presently not used by smbspool.
  14                 </p></li><li><p>The user argument (argv[2]) contains the
  15                 print user's name and is presently not used by smbspool.
  16                 </p></li><li><p>The title argument (argv[3]) contains the
  17                 job title string and is passed as the remote file name
  18                 when sending the print job.</p></li><li><p>The copies argument (argv[4]) contains
  19                 the number of copies to be printed of the named file. If
  20                 no filename is provided then this argument is not used by
  21                 smbspool.</p></li><li><p>The options argument (argv[5]) contains
  22                 the print options in a single string and is currently
  23                 not used by smbspool.</p></li><li><p>The filename argument (argv[6]) contains the
  24                 name of the file to print. If this argument is not specified
  25                 then the print file is read from the standard input.</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a> and <a href="Samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">Samba</span>(7)</span></a>.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p><b class="command">smbspool</b> was written by Michael Sweet
  26         at Easy Software Products.</p><p>The original Samba software and related utilities
  27         were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
  28         by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
  29         to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
  30         The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
  31         excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <a href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/" target="_top">
  32         ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</a>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
  33         release by Jeremy Allison.  The conversion to DocBook for
  34         Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2
  35         for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</p></div></div></body></html>