SMBSPOOL(8)                   System Administration tools                   SMBSPOOL(8)

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:

              •   smb://server[:port]/printer

              •   smb://workgroup/server[:port]/printer

              •   smb://username:password@server[:port]/printer

              •   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
              •   The job argument (argv[1]) contains the job ID number and is
                  presently not used by smbspool.

              •   The user argument (argv[2]) contains the print user's name and is
                  presently not used by smbspool.

              •   The title argument (argv[3]) contains the job title string and is
                  passed as the remote file name when sending the print job.

              •   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.

              •   The options argument (argv[5]) contains the print options in a single
                  string and is currently not used by smbspool.

              •   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 4.9.5-Debian of the Samba suite.

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.

Samba 4.9.5-Debian                     09/02/2019                           SMBSPOOL(8)

Usage: smbspool [DEVICE_URI] job-id user title copies options [file]
       The DEVICE_URI environment variable can also contain the
       destination printer:

           smb://[username:password@][workgroup/]server[:port]/printer