smbprint (or: print to nt with smbclient)

Angie.Cabrera at LogixCom.com Angie.Cabrera at LogixCom.com
Tue May 8 00:01:35 GMT 2001


I am having the same issue.  I am running Linux Red Hat V7.0 and Samba
2.2.0.  I am simply trying to print to a printer on an NT server.  

I have tried :
cat file | smbclient \\\\server\printer -U user%password
But this does not work it gets me to the smb prompt and interprets the first
word of my file as an undefined smb command.  
I have tried: 
cat file | smbclient \\\\server\printer -Uuser%password -c 'print -' 
This does the same thing.
smbclient \\\\server\printer -Uuser%password -c 'print file' 
Which does not print the file at all.
And I have tried 
(echo "print -" ; cat file ) | smbclient .....
Which does not print the file at all either.

Samba is working as far as shares are concerned, etc.  I know I can talk to
the printer because I am getting blank pages and error handler pages.  I
just can't seem to figure out the correct syntax.  help!










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