10-14-2004
I know I didn't need to do a new post but I didn't want to delete the older posts so this one makes sense.
The bloke who run the printroom showed me I can reach a shell
Whole different ball and game now I don't need to know what I did before like what the printer can do what services it runs, how it can connect to the network eitehr network card does it have a serial card and the list of questions goes on.
So anyway this is what I was able to find out. This printer is running a compelete version of Solaris 8 running on SPARC (yes this is a printer) also it has Samaba installed
So all I have to do now is make it so Samba runs. I'm going to try tomorrow making it sop Samba runs as a deamon using,
smbd -D
Then I will try and mount the path on a windows machine. Then when that is done the blokes will be able to scan on the printer then put the scanned job into a directory path I choose for them. Then they go to the mount directory with Windows so they can then e-mail them off to the people they need to.
Running the smbd -D command will do run the samba thingy for me to be able to test what I am after? If not any other idea's on what i could try?
I will let you all know how this goes.
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smbspool
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:
o smb://server[:port]/printer
o smb://workgroup/server[:port]/printer
o smb://username:password@server[:port]/printer
o 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
o The job argument (argv[1]) contains the job ID number and is presently not used by smbspool.
o The user argument (argv[2]) contains the print user's name and is presently not used by smbspool.
o The title argument (argv[3]) contains the job title string and is passed as the remote file name when sending the print job.
o 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.
o The options argument (argv[5]) contains the print options in a single string and is currently not used by smbspool.
o 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 correct for version 3 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.
The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open
Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to
DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.
Samba 3.5 06/18/2010 SMBSPOOL(8)