testprns

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NAME
       testprns - check printer name for validity with smbd

SYNOPSIS
       testprns printername [ printcapname ]

DESCRIPTION
       This tool is part of the  Samba 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 val-
              idation  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, if testprns finds the printer then smbd 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
       Samba  daemons  are  logged by this program to the file test.log in the
       current 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 2.2 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO
       printcap(5), smbd(8) smbclient(1)

AUTHOR
       The original Samba software  and  related  utilities  were  created  by
       Andrew  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/
       <URL:ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/>)  and  updated  for the Samba 2.0
       release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2.2  was
       done by Gerald Carter



                               19 November 2002                    TESTPRNS(1)