[jcifs] Accessing print shares
Mike Coleman
mike.coleman at anixter.com
Thu Oct 14 16:04:31 GMT 2004
A long time ago several questions were posted about accessing print shares. The
concensus was (I believe) to use RPC for printing. However, I was able to make
a very minor modification to jCIFS which allows creating print jobs. I was
wondering if making this change would be acceptable.
The change I made was in SMBFile.open0(int, int, int)
All I had to change was
if( tree.session.transport.hasCapability( ServerMessageBlock.CAP_NT_SMBS )) {
...
to
if( getType() != TYPE_PRINTER && tree.session.transport.hasCapability(
ServerMessageBlock.CAP_NT_SMBS )) {
...
Doing so allows me to do create a print job via
new SMBFileOuputStream("smb://user:password@computer/printshare");
This DOES NOT allow me to render graphics and perform printing operations as
might be expected, but it does allow me to write raw data to the share which,
for me, is exactly what I want.
-mike
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