Re: smbprint

[whitnl73@juno.com]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Kurt Sys wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I try to get samba to work, especially the printing to a windows NT network printer. I can print to the printer by using smbprint etc, but this always takes some time (first 'gs -sDEVICE=ljet -sOutputFile=file.hp file.pdf' followed by 'smbclient \\\\labmetserver\\HPLaserJ -Ukurts%xxxxx' and finally giving the command 'print file.hp'). So, I decided to try to make an entry in my printcap-file (I show it here, although I'm sure that this doesn't matter for the problem I have...):

...
>
> And then I had to make two more files (these are the important ones, I guess):
> /var/spool/lpd/smb0/.config:
> ----
> server = LABMETSERVER
> service = HPLaserJ
> user = kurts
> password = "xxxxxx"
> ----
>
> and the file /usr/local/bin/smbprint:
> ----
> #!/bin/sh -x
>
> logfile=/tmp/smb-print.log
>
> eval acct_file=\$$#
>
> spool_dir=/var/spool/lpd/smb0
> config_file=$spool_dir/.config
>
> eval cat $config_file

Excuse me?  Why do you think this will set any shell variables?
This is just going to copy your config file to stdout.
See "help eval" and man cat.

I think you want something like

tn=`mktemp /tmp/x.XXXXXXX` && sed 's/ //g' $cf >$tn && source $tn && rm $tn
unset tn

AFAIK, the way to set a shell variable is: "name=value",
not "name = value", hence the sed
>
> Apparently, the variables 'server', 'service', 'user' and 'password' are not read (since they are replaced by nothing). What am I doing wrong?
>
why would cat be setting variables?
>
> thanks in advance,
> Kurt
> -
>
Lawson

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