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SMBSPOOL(8)                                                                                      SMBSPOOL(8)



NAME
       smbspool - send a print file to an SMB printer

SYNOPSIS
       smbspool {job} {user} {title} {copies} {options} [filename]

DESCRIPTION
       This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

       smbspool  is  a very small print spooling program that sends a print file to an SMB printer. The com-mand-line command-line
       mand-line arguments are position-dependent for compatibility with the Common  UNIX  Printing  System,
       but you can use smbspool with any printing system or from a program or script.

       DEVICE URI

       smbspool  specifies  the  destination  using  a  Uniform Resource Identifier ("URI") with a method of
       "smb". This string can take a number of forms:

       •  smb://server[:port]/printer

       •  smb://workgroup/server[:port]/printer

       •  smb://username:password@server[:port]/printer

       •  smb://username:password@workgroup/server[:port]/printer

       smbspool tries to get the URI from the environment variable DEVICE_URI. If DEVICE_URI is not present,
       smbspool will use argv[0] if that starts with smb:// or argv[1] if that is not the case.

       Programs  using  the  exec(2) functions can pass the URI in argv[0], while shell scripts must set the
       DEVICE_URI environment variable prior to running smbspool.

OPTIONS
       •  The job argument (argv[1]) contains the job ID number and is presently not used by smbspool.

       •  The user argument (argv[2]) contains the print user's name and is presently not used by  smbspool.

       •  The  title  argument (argv[3]) contains the job title string and is passed as the remote file name
          when sending the print job.

       •  The copies argument (argv[4]) contains the number of copies to be printed of the named file. If no
          filename is provided then this argument is not used by smbspool.

       •  The  options argument (argv[5]) contains the print options in a single string and is currently not
          used by smbspool.

       •  The filename argument (argv[6]) contains the name of the file to print. If this  argument  is  not
          specified then the print file is read from the standard input.

VERSION
       This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO
       smbd(8) and samba(7).

AUTHOR
       smbspool was written by Michael Sweet at Easy Software Products.

       The  original  Samba  software  and  related  utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now
       developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel  is  devel-oped. developed.
       oped.

       The  original  Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page sources were converted to YODL
       format    (another    excellent    piece    of     Open     Source     software,     available     at
       ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conver-sion conversion
       sion to DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for  Samba
       3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.




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