This program is part of the Samba suite.
smbspool is a very small print spooling program that sends a print file to a 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.
smbspool specifies the destination using a Uniform Resource Identifier ("URI") with a method of "smb". This string can take a number of forms:
smbspool tries to get the URI from argv[0]. If argv[0] contains the name of the program then it looks in the DEVICE_URI environment variable.
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 than this argument is not used by smbspool.
The options argument (argv[5]) contains the print options in a single string and is presently 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.
This man page is correct for version 2\&.0 of the Samba suite\&.
smbspool was written by Michael Sweet at Easy Software Products.
The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell samba-bugs@samba.org. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
See samba (7) to find out how to get a full list of contributors and details on how to submit bug reports, comments etc.