1SMBSPOOL(8)                                                        SMBSPOOL(8)
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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
22       ("URI") with a method of "smb". This string can take a number of forms:
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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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32       smbspool tries to get the URI from the environment variable DEVICE_URI.
33       If DEVICE_URI is not present, smbspool will use argv[0] if that  starts
34       with smb:// or argv[1] if that is not the case.
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36       Programs using the exec(2) functions can pass the URI in argv[0], while
37       shell scripts must set the DEVICE_URI  environment  variable  prior  to
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OPTIONS

41       ·  The  job  argument  (argv[1])  contains  the  job  ID  number and is
42          presently not used by smbspool.
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44       ·  The user argument (argv[2]) contains the print user's  name  and  is
45          presently not used by smbspool.
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47       ·  The  title  argument  (argv[3]) contains the job title string and is
48          passed as the remote file name when sending the print job.
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50       ·  The copies argument (argv[4]) contains the number of  copies  to  be
51          printed  of  the  named  file.  If no filename is provided then this
52          argument is not used by smbspool.
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54       ·  The options argument (argv[5]) contains the print options in a  sin‐
55          gle string and is currently not used by smbspool.
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57       ·  The  filename  argument  (argv[6])  contains the name of the file to
58          print. If this argument is not specified then the print file is read
59          from the standard input.
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VERSION

62       This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.
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SEE ALSO

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

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