Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:27:15 -0500 From: Don Read <sysop@calcasieu.com> To: "Milliken, Scott" <MillikS@sti.imshealth.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: SMB Printing Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990407182715.008abc40@pop.calcasieu.com> In-Reply-To: <C26E7066AAA6D211AB16006097A52FCC5F6256@STIUSATLCX1.saleste ch.com>
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back on 04:26 PM 4/7/99 -0400, you said:
>Hi,
> I'm trying to figure out just how to put an entry in /etc/printcap
>so that I can print to a Samba shared printer. I have the input filter set
>up and have had the printer working when hooked up locally, but I have a
>need to print to some other printers that are attached to NT print queues
>and do not have lpd running locally on the NT servers. Adding lpd is not an
>option as we have territorial admins here that won't give access to admins
>from other groups to do things like that.
> It would seem that the logical way to approach this would be to have
>the spooler print to a file, then pass that file name on to a script that
>could call smbclient to attach to the printer, then execute a "print
>filename" command. However, I'm not quite sure how to implement that. If
>there is an FAQ that covers this, I'd certainly like to know where. I've
>checked the FreeBSD handbook and the www.freebsd.org web pages to no avail.
>
Here's how I work it with W95 & W4W 3.1 "shared" printers
shempdm|Debbie's Dot Matrix:\
:lp=/dev/null:sd=/var/spool/lpd/shemp:\
:if=/usr/share/samba/shemp_dm:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:sh:
and the script shemp_dm
-----
#!/bin/sh
#
# edit this to show where your smbclient is
smbcmd="/usr/local/bin/smbclient"
server=""
username="samba"
hostname=`hostname`
file="/var/tmp/$$"
#
# get the box & share name from the name of this script. <server>_<ptr>
#
sname=`basename "$0"`
server=`echo "$sname" |cut -d_ -f1`
ptr=`echo "$sname" |cut -d_ -f2`
cat - > $file
printf "\f" >> $file
echo print $file | $smbcmd "\\\\$server\\$ptr" -N -P -U $username
rm $file
-----
Regards,
--
Don Read sysop@calcasieu.com
EDP Manager dread@texas.net
Calcasieu Lumber Co. Austin TX
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pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
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