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