Re: printing to SMB printer from unix
Try to see http://dmpc.dbp.fmph.uniba.sk/~rybar/unix/unix.html
This works to me.
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 03:51:35PM -0700, nate@firetrail.com wrote:
> I have been workin for about an hour tryin to print to a smb printer, and
> it doesnt work. the smb server is win98. win98 shows the file being
> spooled but it never finishes spooling nor starts printing(so far just
> trying plain text.
>
> I am running potato, and samba 2.0.7 with a smbprint script:
>
> logfile=/tmp/smb-print.log
> TRANS=0
> eval acct_file=\${$#}
> spool_dir=`dirname $acct_file`
> config_file=/var/spool/lpd/smb/.config
> eval `cat $config_file`
>
> while getopts t c; do
> case $c in
> t)
> TRANS=1
> ;;
>
> '?') # Bad parameters, ignore it ...
> ;;
> esac
> echo "server $server, service $service" >> $logfile
>
> if [ $TRANS -eq 1 ]; then
> echo translate
> fi
> echo "print -"
> cat
> ) | /usr/bin/smbclient "\\\\$server\\$service" $password -U $server -N -P
> >> $logfile
>
> my /var/spool/lpd/smb/.config is:
>
> server=printserver-noc
> service=HPLASERJET4
> password=""
>
> (the printer has no password)
>
> sample output from the log /tmp/smb-print.log:
>
> server printserver-noc, service HPLASERJET4
> added interface ip=2xx.1xx.xx5.1xx bcast=2xx.xx2.1xx.255
> nmask=255.255.255.0
> Got a positive name query response from xx9.x6x.xx5.xx4 ( xx.xx.xxx.xxx
> )
> smb: \> print -
> putting file - as stdin-9159 (206.937 kb/s) (average 206.938 kb/s)
>
> that is printing a raw text file with the command
>
> cat filename.txt | smbprint
>
> nothing comes out. I can configure this to print direct to the printer's
> IP but for compadiblity purposes i'd rather get it workin through SMB so i
> can print to printers that don't have their own IP.
>
> ideas ??
>
> nate
>
> :::
> http://www.aphroland.org/
> http://www.linuxpowered.net/
> aphro@aphroland.org
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>
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