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NAME

6       smbspool - send a print file to an SMB printer
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SYNOPSIS

9       smbspool {job} {user} {title} {copies} {options} [filename]
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DESCRIPTION

12       This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.
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14       smbspool is a very small print spooling program that sends a print file
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16       for compatibility with the Common UNIX Printing System, but you can use
17       smbspool with any printing system or from a program or script.
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19       DEVICE URI
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21       smbspool specifies the destination using a Uniform Resource Identifier
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24       ·   smb://server[:port]/printer
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26       ·   smb://workgroup/server[:port]/printer
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28       ·   smb://username:password@server[:port]/printer
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30       ·   smb://username:password@workgroup/server[:port]/printer
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33       smbspool tries to get the URI from the environment variable DEVICE_URI.
34       If DEVICE_URI is not present, smbspool will use argv[0] if that starts
35       with “smb://” or argv[1] if that is not the case.
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37       Programs using the exec(2) functions can pass the URI in argv[0], while
38       shell scripts must set the DEVICE_URI environment variable prior to
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OPTIONS

42       ·   The job argument (argv[1]) contains the job ID number and is
43           presently not used by smbspool.
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45       ·   The user argument (argv[2]) contains the print user´s name and is
46           presently not used by smbspool.
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48       ·   The title argument (argv[3]) contains the job title string and is
49           passed as the remote file name when sending the print job.
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51       ·   The copies argument (argv[4]) contains the number of copies to be
52           printed of the named file. If no filename is provided then this
53           argument is not used by smbspool.
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55       ·   The options argument (argv[5]) contains the print options in a
56           single string and is currently not used by smbspool.
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58       ·   The filename argument (argv[6]) contains the name of the file to
59           print. If this argument is not specified then the print file is
60           read from the standard input.
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VERSION

63       This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.
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SEE ALSO

66       smbd(8) and samba(7).
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AUTHOR

69       smbspool was written by Michael Sweet at Easy Software Products.
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71       The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
72       Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
73       Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
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75       The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page
76       sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open
77       Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and
78       updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to
79       DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to
80       DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.
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