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diff --git a/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5 b/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5 index 147b3dce9f..8937fe74eb 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5 +++ b/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5 @@ -210,6 +210,12 @@ could be used simply to limit access to a subset of your local printers. An alias, by the way, is defined as any component of the first entry of a printcap record. Records are separated by newlines, components (if there are more than one) are separated by vertical bar symbols ("|"). + +NOTE: On SYSV systems which use lpstat to determine what printers are +defined on the system you may be able to use "printcap name = lpstat" +to automatically obtain a list of printers. See the "printcap name" +option for more detils. + .RE .SH PARAMETERS Parameters define the specific attributes of services. @@ -2759,9 +2765,13 @@ This parameter may be used to override the compiled-in default printcap name used by the server (usually /etc/printcap). See the discussion of the [printers] section above for reasons why you might want to do this. -For those of you without a printcap (say on SysV) you can just create a -minimal file that looks like a printcap and set "printcap name =" in -[global] to point at it. +On SystemV systems that use lpstat to list available printers you +can use "printcap name = lpstat" to automatically obtain lists of +available printers. This is the default for systems that define +SYSV at compile time in Samba (this includes most SystemV based +systems). If "printcap name" is set to lpstat on these systems then +Samba will launch "lpstat -v" and attempt to parse the output to +obtain a printer list. A minimal printcap file would look something like this: |