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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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