System Administration tools                          SMBSPOL(1M)



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
     DEVICEURI. If DEVICEURI 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 DEVICEURI
     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



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         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 correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO
     smbd(1M) 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 developed.

     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 conversion 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.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
     attributes:

     
       ATRIBUTE TYPE       ATRIBUTE VALUE   
    
     Availability         SUNWsmbar, SUNWsmbau
    
     Interface Stability  External            
    

NOTES
     Source for Samba is available on http:/opensolaris.org.

     Samba(7) delivers the set of four SMF(5) services as can be
     seen from the following example:





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          $ svcs samba wins winbind swat
         STATE          STIME    FMRI
         disabled       Apr21   svc:/network/samba:default
         disabled       Apr21   svc:/network/winbind:default
         disabled       Apr21   svc:/network/wins:default
         disabled       Apr21   svc:/network/swat:default

     where the services are:

      "samba"
         runs the smbd daemon managing the CIFS sessions

      "wins"
         runs the nmbd daemon enabling the browsing (WINS)

      "winbind"
         runs the winbindd daemon making the domain idmap

      "swat"
         Samba Web Administration Tool is a service providing
         access to browser-based Samba administration interface
         and on-line documentation.  The service runs on software
         loopback network interface on port 901/tcp, i.e. opening
         "http:/localhost:901/" in browser will access the SWAT
         service on local machine.

     Please note: SWAT uses HTP Basic Authentication scheme
     where user name and passwords are sent over the network in
     clear text. In the SWAT case the user name is root.
     Transferring such sensitive data is advisable only on the
     software loopback network interface or over secure networks.
























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