How to Enable the SMB Print Service

1. Become an administrator.

   For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .

2. Create and publish a share called print$.

   The share path can point to any directory, which is used as the spool path for all SMB shared printers.

   # zfs share -o share.smb=on -o share.path=/pool/dataset pool/dataset%print$

3. Set permissions on the directory to permit root access.

   # chmod A=user:root:full_set:allow pathname

4. Enable the SMB print service.

   # sharectl set -p print_enable=true smb

5. Verify that the SMB print service is enabled.

   # sharectl get -p print_enable smb

   If the SMB print service is enabled, the print_enable property is set to true.

6. (Optional) Refresh the SMB service if a CUPS printer is added after the SMB print service is first enabled.

   # svcadm refresh smb/server

This example assigns the print$ share to an existing directory, /tank/printspool, and enables the SMB print service.

# mkdir /tank/printspool
# zfs share -o share.smb -o share.path=/tank/printspool tank%print$
# chmod A=user:root:full_set:allow /tank/printspool
# sharectl set -p print_enable=true smb