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<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 V1.74.0"></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 class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>smbspool — send a print file to an SMB printer</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">smbspool</code> {job} {user} {title} {copies} {options} [filename]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2483326"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a class="citerefentry" 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
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sends a print file to an SMB printer. The command-line arguments
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are position-dependent for compatibility with the Common UNIX
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Printing System, but you can use smbspool with any printing system
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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
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Identifier ("URI") with a method of "smb". This string can take
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a number of forms:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>smb://server[:port]/printer</p></li><li><p>smb://workgroup/server[:port]/printer</p></li><li><p>smb://username:password@server[:port]/printer</p></li><li><p>smb://username:password@workgroup/server[:port]/printer</p></li></ul></div><p>smbspool tries to get the URI from the environment variable
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<code class="envar">DEVICE_URI</code>. If <code class="envar">DEVICE_URI</code> is not present,
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smbspool will use argv[0] if that starts with “<span class="quote">smb://</span>”
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or argv[1] if that is not the case.</p><p>Programs using the <code class="literal">exec(2)</code> functions can
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pass the URI in argv[0], while shell scripts must set the
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<code class="envar">DEVICE_URI</code> environment variable prior to
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running smbspool.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2483539"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p>The job argument (argv[1]) contains the
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job ID number and is presently not used by smbspool.
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</p></li><li><p>The user argument (argv[2]) contains the
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print user's name and is presently not used by smbspool.
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</p></li><li><p>The title argument (argv[3]) contains the
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job title string and is passed as the remote file name
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when sending the print job.</p></li><li><p>The copies argument (argv[4]) contains
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the number of copies to be printed of the named file. If
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no filename is provided then this argument is not used by
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smbspool.</p></li><li><p>The options argument (argv[5]) contains
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the print options in a single string and is currently
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not used by smbspool.</p></li><li><p>The filename argument (argv[6]) contains the
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name of the file to print. If this argument is not specified
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then the print file is read from the standard input.</p></li></ul></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2483590"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2483601"></a><h2>SEE ALSO</h2><p><a class="citerefentry" href="smbd.8.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">smbd</span>(8)</span></a> and <a class="citerefentry" href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a>.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2483626"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p><code class="literal">smbspool</code> was written by Michael Sweet
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at Easy Software Products.</p><p>The original Samba software and related utilities
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were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
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by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
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to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
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The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
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excellent piece of Open Source software, available at <a class="ulink" href="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/" target="_top">
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ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</a>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
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release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
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Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2
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for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.</p></div></div></body></html>