testprns(1)
NAME
testprns - check printer name for validity with smbd
SYNOPSIS
testprns printername [ printcapname ]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the Samba suite.
testprns is a very simple test program to determine
whether a given printer name is valid for use in a service
to be provided by smbd(8)
"Valid" in this context means "can be found in the print
cap specified". This program is very stupid - so stupid in
fact that it would be wisest to always specify the print
cap file to use.
OPTIONS
- printername
- The printer name to validate.
- Printer names are taken from the first field in
each record in the printcap file, single printer
names and sets of aliases separated by vertical
bars ("|") are recognized. Note that no validation
or checking of the printcap syntax is done beyond
that required to extract the printer name. It may
be that the print spooling system is more forgiving
or less forgiving than testprns. However, if test prns finds the printer then smbd should do so as well. - printcapname
- This is the name of the printcap file within which
to search for the given printer name. - If no printcap name is specified testprns will
attempt to scan the printcap file name specified at
compile time.
FILES
- /etc/printcap
- This is usually the default printcap file to scan.
See printcap (5).
DIAGNOSTICS
If a printer is found to be valid, the message "Printer
name <printername> is valid" will be displayed.
If a printer is found to be invalid, the message "Printer
name <printername> is not valid" will be displayed.
All messages that would normally be logged during opera
tion of the Samba daemons are logged by this program to
the file test.log in the current directory. The program
runs at debuglevel 3, so quite extensive logging informa
tion is written. The log should be checked carefully for
errors and warnings.
Other messages are self-explanatory.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 2.2 of the Samba
suite.
SEE ALSO
printcap(5), smbd(8) smbclient(1)
AUTHOR
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, avail
able at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/
<URL: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