testparm

Samba

23 Oct 1998


NAME

testparm - check printer name for validity with smbd


SYNOPSIS


testprns printername [printcapname]


DESCRIPTION


This program 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.


"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



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 <printername> is valid" will be displayed.


If a printer is found to be invalid, the message "Printer name <printername> 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.


SEE ALSO


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


AUTHOR


The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au. 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) and updated for the Samba2.0 release by Jeremy Allison, samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au.


See samba (7) to find out how to get a full list of contributors and details on how to submit bug reports, comments etc.