smbspool — send a print file to an SMB printer
smbspool {job} {user} {title} {copies} {options} [filename]
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.
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.