[Samba] HOWTO Create a PDF Writer in samba

[Freeman, Peter (ERHS)]

Hi Martyn

I'm currently attempting to set up the same kind of thing, however
I'm using CUPS as the printing system and it ignores the "print command"
parameter.  At the moment I have a pdf print share set up, and I can
print to it, but the PS file doesn't convert to pdf (I can do it manually
from the CL and it comes out fine)

I take it you used lpd?  Does anyone on the list have pdf writing working
with CUPS as the printing system??

TIA

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martyn Ranyard [mailto:ranyardm at lineone.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, 30 July 2002 12:53 AM
>To: Samba List
>Subject: [Samba] HOWTO Create a PDF Writer in samba
>
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>   Thought I'd post this to the list as I found a better way of doing 
>it.  Nice to have for posterity.
>   Please include it in the source of samba if you wish - I 
>hereby license 
>it under GPL
>
>1. install ghostscript (most distributions include it anyway)
>2. put the following in the file /usr/sbin/pdfprint and make 
>it executable 
>by whatever your guest user for samba is :
>
>#!/bin/bash
>#convert to pdf $1 = spool file $2 = uid $3 = gid $4 = 
>machinename $5 = ip
>FILENAME=pdf-$2-`date +%d%m%H%M%S`.pdf
>OUTPUTPATH=/mnt/raid/topdf
>echo converting $1 to $FILENAME for $2 of machine $4... >> 
>$OUTPUTPATH/pdfcreate.log
>/usr/bin/ps2pdf $1 $OUTPUTPATH/$FILENAME >> 
>$OUTPUTPATH/pdfcreate.log 2>> 
>$OUTPUTPATH/pdfcreate.log
>echo conversion finished, removing $1 >> $OUTPUTPATH/pdfcreate.log
>rm $1
>echo done, setting permissions and notifing user >> 
>$OUTPUTPATH/pdfcreate.log
>chown $2:$3 /mnt/raid/topdf/$FILENAME >> $OUTPUTPATH/pdfcreate.log
>chmod 700 /mnt/raid/topdf/$FILENAME >> $OUTPUTPATH/pdfcreate.log
>echo your new PDF is called $FILENAME. | smbclient -M $4 -I $5
>echo All done. >> $OUTPUTPATH/pdfcreate.log
>echo >> $OUTPUTPATH/pdfcreate.log
>
>of course the permissions and file format can be altered 
>depending on your 
>system, but make sure that as these files are created by the 
>guest user, 
>that the directories referenced (spool dir and OUTPUTPATH) are 
>writable by 
>nobody (or whatever your guest user is).
>
>3. edit your smb.conf file and add something like the following :
>
>[pdfwriter]
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         guest ok = yes
>         browseable = yes
>         printable = yes
>         read only = no
>         force group = root
>         force user = root
>         force create mode = 0777
>         print command = /usr/sbin/pdfprint %s %U %G %m %I
>
>Yet again, the permissions I have arrived at via 
>trial-and-error and are 
>more than a little insecure :)
>
>4. restart samba
>
>root at linuxsambaserver:~# killall -HUP smbd ; killall -HUP nmbd
>
>NB this apparently is not the way to do it on anything other 
>than Linux!
>
>5. Assign a postscript printer to the pdfwriter printer - Apple Color 
>LaserWriter 12/600 works well for me on NT4, but Adobe do a 
>free (small F) 
>printer driver, which also works well.
>
>6. Print.  You should get a message (NT/2K/XP/9x with 
>winpopup) informing 
>you of the name of your file.
>
>Hope this helps someone.
>
>
>Martyn Ranyard
>Free Software Advocate
>
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