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.\"     Title: smbspool
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.\"      Date: 04/07/2024
.\"    Manual: System Administration tools
.\"    Source: Samba 4.20.0
.\"  Language: English
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.TH "SMBSPOOL" "8" "04/07/2024" "Samba 4\&.20\&.0" "System Administration tools"
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.SH "NAME"
smbspool \- send a print file to an SMB printer
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.HP \w'\ 'u
smbspool {job} {user} {title} {copies} {options} [filename]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
This tool is part of the
\fBsamba\fR(7)
suite\&.
.PP
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\&.
.PP
\fIDEVICE URI\fR
.PP
smbspool specifies the destination using a Uniform Resource Identifier ("URI") with a method of "smb"\&. This string can take a number of forms:
.RS
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
smb://server[:port]/printer
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
smb://workgroup/server[:port]/printer
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
smb://username:password@server[:port]/printer
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
smb://username:password@workgroup/server[:port]/printer
.RE
.sp
.RE
.PP
smbspool tries to get the URI from the environment variable
\fBDEVICE_URI\fR\&. If
\fBDEVICE_URI\fR
is not present, smbspool will use argv[0] if that starts with
\(lqsmb://\(rq
or argv[1] if that is not the case\&.
.PP
Programs using the
exec(2)
functions can pass the URI in argv[0], while shell scripts must set the
\fBDEVICE_URI\fR
environment variable prior to running smbspool\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.RS
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
The job argument (argv[1]) contains the job ID number and is presently not used by smbspool\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
The user argument (argv[2]) contains the print user\*(Aqs name and is presently not used by smbspool\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
The title argument (argv[3]) contains the job title string and is passed as the remote file name when sending the print job\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
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\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
The options argument (argv[5]) contains the print options in a single string and is currently not used by smbspool\&.
.RE
.sp
.RS 4
.ie n \{\
\h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
.\}
.el \{\
.sp -1
.IP \(bu 2.3
.\}
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\&.
.RE
.SH "VERSION"
.PP
This man page is part of version 4\&.20\&.0 of the Samba suite\&.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fBsmbd\fR(8)
and
\fBsamba\fR(7)\&.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
smbspool
was written by Michael Sweet at Easy Software Products\&.
.PP
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\&.