> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 4 15:22:21 2002
> Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 08:44:00 +1000
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LPRng: Simple Samba
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Small)
>
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 02:46:59PM -0500, Jeff Baldwin wrote:
> > What pakcages are required for me to setup printing using LPRng. I want
> > to keep the install as small as possible, but I want to make sure that I
> > don't lack functionality..
> >
> > Are there any packages other than LPRng that I should gather?
>
> You may possibly want to put some printing filters on their but usually
> for windows printing this is not needed (and causes more problems
> sometimes). Other than that, samba+lprng are about all you need.
>
> If you want to go the other way (Unix lpr/lpd to SMB printer) be careful
> of one thing. The method given in the LPRng howto used to work with
> old smbprints and sometimes works with the new smbprint.
>
> The nice samba people have given us the -c flag which is a very welcome
> addition. Change the last few lines to:
>
> cat | /usr/bin/smbclient "\\\\$server\\$service" \
> "$password" -U "$server" -c "print -" -N -P 1>&2
>
> It gets rid of that awful echo rubbish you had to have. That's good
> when wierd things happen as the script sometimes used to hang.
>
> - Craig
> --
> Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5
> Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You can, of course, use the smbprint in the LPRng-3.8.9++/UTILS directory.
It 'autodetects' which version of smbclient you have and will use
the appropriate command.... Here it is... (Note the attributions).
#!/bin/sh
#
# Blatently lifted from some folks who blatently lifted it from
# other folks, who seem to have taken it from one of the very
# first Samba distributions.
# Patrick ("Worse than a chain letter") Powell
#
# This script supports sending a print job to an SMB (Samba/Microsoft)
# printer using the 'smbclient' from the Samba distribution.
#
# Variation 1: LPRng + smbclient -A auth
# smb:lp=|/.../smbprint
# :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P
# :xfer_options=share=//host/share authfile=auth
# - user name and password in /var/spool/lpd/smb/auth file
# - requires version of smbclient that uses -A authfile
# Variation 2: LPRng + smbclient -U username password
# smb:lp=|/.../smbprint
# :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P
# :xfer_options=share=//host/share authfile=auth
# - user name and password in /var/spool/lpd/smb/auth file
# - requires version of smbclient that uses -A authfile
# Variation 3: LPRng + used as filter
# smb:lp=/dev/null
# :if=/.../smbprint
# :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P
# :xfer_options=share=//host/share authfile=auth
# - user name and password in /var/spool/lpd/smb/auth file
# Variation 4: pass options in $spooldir/general.cfg file
# smb:lp=/dev/null OR lp=|/.../smbprint OR :if=/.../smbprint
# - options in /var/spool/lpd/smb/general.cfg file
#
# The general.cfg file is used to set shell variables
#
# share=//host/share - share (required)
# hostip= - host ip address (optional)
# workgroup= - workgroup (required)
# authfile=auth - authorization file (optional)
# translate= - do translation (optional and DANGEROUS)
#
# The authentication file (authfile) holds the username and
# password value. You can put these in the general.cfg file
# as well. WARNING: smbclient requires the authentication file
# to have the format:
# username=name
# password=xxxx
# There are NO quotes allowed around the name and/or password
# files so the password value xxxx must not contain shell
# quote or metacharacters.
#
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
export PATH
# get options from general.cfg file
if [ -f ./general.cfg ] ; then
source ./general.cfg
fi
# get options from $PRINTCAP_ENTRY environment variable
options=`echo "${PRINTCAP_ENTRY}" | sed -n 's/:xfer_options=//p' `
echo OPTIONS $options >&2
if [ -n "$options" ] ; then
eval export $options
fi
# a brutal way to determine if smbclient takes the -A authfile option
smbclientold=`smbclient -A /dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null | grep 'invalid option'`
# check for smbclientold=yes and fix up authfile/password stuff
if [ "$smbclientold" != "" -a "$authfile" != "" -a -f "$authfile" ] ; then
. $authfile
authfile=
fi
if [ "$translate" = "yes" ]; then
command="translate ; print -"
else
command="print -"
fi
#echo $share $password $translate $x_command > /tmp/smbprint.log
# use the -A or
if [ "$smbclientold" = "" ] ; then
# echo smbclient "$share" ${password:+password} -E \
# ${username:+-U} ${username:+username} ${hostip:+-I} $hostip -N
${workgroup:+-W} $workgroup \
# ${authfile:+-A} $authfile -c "$command" >&2
smbclient "$share" ${password} -E \
${username:+-U} ${username} ${hostip:+-I} $hostip -N ${workgroup:+-W}
$workgroup \
${authfile:+-A} $authfile -c "$command" >&2
else
# echo echo \"$command\" "|" smbclient "$share" ${password:+password} -E \
# ${username:+-U} ${username:+username} ${hostip:+-I} $hostip -N
${workgroup:+-W} $workgroup \
# >&2
echo $command | smbclient "$share" ${password} -E \
${username:+-U} ${username} ${hostip:+-I} $hostip -N ${workgroup:+-W}
$workgroup \
>&2
fi
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