SAMBA digest 1591

[Seth Vidal]

> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 98 00:51:28 -0500
> From: "Steve Snyder" <ssnyder at indy.net>
> To: "Samba Mailing List" <samba at samba.anu.edu.au>
> Subject: Sending msg via WinPopup on print error/completion?
> Message-ID: <199802140552.AAA19629 at indy4.indy.net>
> 
> Is it possible to configure Samba to notify the user via WinPopup when a
> print job has completed or halted due to error?  I mean, of course, a print
> job to a Samba-shared network printer.
> 
> In case it's pertinent: I'm running Samba v1.9.18p2 on Linux (kernel 
> v2.0.32).
> 
> Thanks.
> 

you could edit the print command so that it performs certain tasks after
printing.
a winpopup scripted via smbclient and some of samba environment variables
passed as command args shouldn't be too hard.

I do a similar thing for print logging.

later
-sv