Samba Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition

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Samba Pocket Reference

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.

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 (used to specify 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 stan-

dard 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 Resource Indicator, which can be in

any of the following formats:

smb://server/printer

smb://workgroup/server/printer

smb://username:password@server/printer

smb:// ...