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cupsaddsmb man page for CUPS.

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cupsaddsmb - export printers to samba for windows clients cupsaddsmb [ -H samba-server ] [ -U samba-user[%samba-password] ] [ -h cups-server[:port] ] [ -v ] -a

cupsaddsmb [ -H samba-server ] [ -U samba-user[%samba-password] ] [ -h cups-server[:port] ] [ -v ] printer [ ... printer ]

The cupsaddsmb program exports printers to the SAMBA software (version 2.2.0 or higher) for use with Windows clients. Depending on the SAMBA configuration, you may need to provide a password to export the printers. This program requires the Windows printer driver files described below. cupsaddsmb uses the RPC-based printing support in SAMBA to provide printer drivers and PPD files to Windows client machines. In order to use this functionality, you must first configure the SAMBA smb.conf (5) file to support printing through CUPS and provide a printer driver download share, as follows:

 [global]
 load printers = yes
 printing = cups
 printcap name = cups

 [printers]
 comment = All Printers
 path = /var/spool/samba
 browseable = no
 public = yes
 guest ok = yes
 writable = no
 printable = yes

 [print$]
 comment = Printer Drivers
 path = /etc/samba/drivers
 browseable = yes
 guest ok = no
 read only = yes
 write list = root

This configuration assumes a FHS-compliant installation of SAMBA; adjust the [printers] and [print$] share paths accordingly on your system as needed. The base driver for Windows 2000 and higher is the Microsoft PostScript driver, which is available on any system running Windows 2000 or higher in the %WINDIR%\\SYSTEM32\\SPOOL\\DRIVERS\\W32X86\\3 folder for 32-bit drivers and %WINDIR%\\SYSTEM32\\SPOOL\\DRIVERS\\X64\\3 folder for 64-bit drivers.

Copy the 32-bit drivers to the /usr/share/cups/drivers directory and the 64-bit drivers to the /usr/share/cups/drivers/x64 directory exactly as named below:

 ps5ui.dll
 pscript.hlp
 pscript.ntf
 pscript5.dll

Note: Unlike Windows, case is significant - make sure that you use the lowercase filenames shown above, otherwise cupsaddsmb will fail to export the drivers. cupsaddsmb supports the following options:

5 -H samba-server Specifies the SAMBA server which defaults to the CUPS server.

5 -U samba-user[%samba-password] Specifies the SAMBA print admin username which defaults to your current username. If the username contains a percent (%) character, then the text following the percent is treated as the SAMBA password to use.

5 -a Exports all known printers. Otherwise only the named printers are exported.

5 -h cups-server[:port] Specifies a different CUPS server to use.

5 -v Specifies that verbose information should be shown. This is useful for debugging SAMBA configuration problems.

rpcclient (1), smbclient (1), smbd (8), smb.conf (5), CUPS Online Help (http://localhost:631/help) Copyright \[co] 2007-2014 by Apple Inc.
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