testprns(1) testprns(1)
NAME
testprns - check printer name for validity with smbd
SYNOPSIS
testprns {printername} [printcapname]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.
testprns is a very simple test program to determine whether a given
printer name is valid for use in a service to be provided by smbd(8).
"Valid" in this context means "can be found in the printcap specified".
This program is very stupid - so stupid in fact that it would be wisest
to always specify the printcap file to use.
OPTIONS
printername
The printer name to validate.
Printer names are taken from the first field in each record in
the printcap file, single printer names and sets of aliases sep-
arated by vertical bars ("|") are recognized. Note that no vali-
dation or checking of the printcap syntax is done beyond that
required to extract the printer name. It may be that the print
spooling system is more forgiving or less forgiving than test-
prns. However, iftestprns finds the printer then smbd(8) should
do so as well.
printcapname
This is the name of the printcap file within which to search for
the given printer name.
If no printcap name is specified testprns will attempt to scan
the printcap file name specified at compile time.
FILES
/etc/printcap
This is usually the default printcap file to scan. See printcap
(5).
DIAGNOSTICS
If a printer is found to be valid, the message "Printer name <printer-
name> is valid" will be displayed.
If a printer is found to be invalid, the message "Printer name <print-
ername> is not valid" will be displayed.
All messages that would normally be logged during operation of the Sam-
ba daemons are logged by this program to the file test.log in the cur-
rent directory. The program runs at debuglevel 3, so quite extensive
logging information is written. The log should be checked carefully for
errors and warnings.
Other messages are self-explanatory.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.
SEE ALSO
printcap(5),smbd(8), smbclient(1)
AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were created by An-
drew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The man page
sources were converted to YODL format (another excellent piece of Open
Source software, available at ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and up-
dated for the Samba 2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to
DocBook for Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to Doc-
Book XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.
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