How to use NT share from Unix host?

Bruce Cook BC3-AU at bigfoot.com
Wed Jan 21 15:35:32 GMT 1998


Maher Khzouz writes:

 > How can I make use of Samba to use the NT printer share and print from the
 > unix box.  Or what shall I do to be able to print from the unix machine to
 > the printer defined in the Domain_A NT side.

smbclient -P \\\\machine\\service -c "print file_name"


E.g. your printcap could have somthing like:

nt_printer:\
	:if=/usr/bin/smbclient \\\\machine\\service -P -U% -c "print -":\
	:lf=/var/log/lpd-nt_printer:\
	:mx#0:\
	:sh:fo:

the "-" in  "print -" being print the file from stdin.




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