Tribblix: manual page: smbspool.8

SMBSPOOL(8) System Administration tools 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 command-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:

+o smb://server[:port]/printer

+o smb://workgroup/server[:port]/printer

+o smb://username:password@server[:port]/printer

+o 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

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

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

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

+o 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.

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

+o 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 part of version 4.18.11 of the Samba suite.

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