smbspool - send a print file to an SMB printer
smbspool {job} {user} {title} {copies} {options} [filename]
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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 DEVICE_URI.
If DEVICE_URI 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 DEVICE_URI 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 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 part of version 4.13.17 of the Samba suite.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+-----------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-----------------------+
|Availability | service/network/samba |
+---------------+-----------------------+
|Stability | Volatile |
+---------------+-----------------------+
SEE ALSO
smbd(8) 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.
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from
https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.13.17.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://www.samba.org/.
Samba 4.13.17 06/28/2022 SMBSPOOL(8)