Using Samba, Second Edition

Name

smbspool

Synopsis

The smbspool program provides a CUPS-compatible interface to Samba printing by providing a way to send a print job to an SMB printer using the command-line format specified by CUPS printers. Although smbspool is designed to work best with CUPS printers, it can be used to send print jobs to non-CUPS Samba printers as well.

Command synopsis

smbspool job user title copies options filename

The arguments for smbspool, as shown here, are those used in the CUPS printing system. However, some of the arguments are currently ignored because they don’t correspond to the Samba printing system. These arguments must be supplied in the command and can be filled in with “dummy” values.

The job argument refers to the job number and is currently ignored. The user argument is the name of the user who submitted the print job and is also ignored. The title argument is the name of the print job and must be supplied. It is used as the name of the remote print file. The copies argument is the number of copies that will be printed. This number is used only if the (optional) filename argument is supplied. Otherwise, only one copy is printed. The options argument, for specifying printing options, is ignored. The filename argument is used for specifying the name of the file to be printed. If it is not provided, the standard input will be used.

The printer that the job is to be sent to is specified in the DEVICE_URI environment variable. The format for the printer name is a device Universal ...