SMB HOWTO

SMB HOWTO
David Wood, [email protected]
v1.1.1, 25 June 1999

This is the SMB HOWTO. This document describes how to use the Server
Message Block (SMB) protocol, also called the Session Message Block,
NetBIOS or LanManager protocol, with Linux.
______________________________________________________________________

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Further Information

3. Installation

4. Running The Daemons

5. General Configuration (/etc/smb.conf)

6. Sharing A Linux Drive With Windows Machines

7. Sharing A Windows Drive With Linux Machines

8. Sharing A Linux Printer With Windows Machines

9. Sharing A Windows Printer With Linux Machines

10. Backing Up Windows Machines to a Linux Host

11. Copyright

12. Acknowledgements

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This is the SMB HOWTO. This document describes how to use the Server
Message Block (SMB) protocol, also called the Session Message Block,
NetBIOS or LanManager protocol, with Linux. Although this document is
Linux-centric, Samba runs on most Unix-like operating systems.

This document is maintained by David Wood ([email protected]).
Additions, modifications or corrections may be mailed there for
inclusion in the next release.

Much more Samba documentation is available at the Samba Web site,
located at http://www.samba.org/ <http://www.samba.org/>. You also
might try the comp.protocols.smb newsgroup.

The SMB protocol is used by Microsoft Windows 3.11, NT and 95/98 to
share disks and printers. Using the Samba suite of tools by Andrew
Tridgell ([email protected]), UNIX (including Linux) machines
can share disk and printers with Windows hosts. The smbfs tools by
Paal-Kr. Engstad ([email protected]) and Volker Lendecke
([email protected]) enable Unix machines to mount SMB shares
from Windows or Samba hosts.

There are four things that one can do with Samba:

1. Share a Linux drive with Windows machines.

2. Share a Windows drive with Linux machines.

3. Share a Linux printer with Windows machines.

4. Share a Windows printer with Linux machines.

All of these are covered in this document.

Disclaimer: The procedures and scripts either work for the author or
have been reported to work by the people that provided them.
Different configurations may not work with the information given here.
If you encounter such a situation, you may e-mail the author with
suggestions for improvement in this document, but the author
guarantees nothing. What did you expect? The author is, after all, a
consultant...

Please note that for Windows 3.x machines to access SMB shares, they
must have a TCP/IP stack and the Win32s DLLs. Both of these are
available on Microsoft's Web site (http://www.microsoft.com
<http://www.microsoft.com>).

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This HOWTO attempts to explain how to configure basic SMB file and
print services on a Linux machine. Samba is a very complex and
complete package. There would be no point in attempting to duplicate
all of the documentation for Samba here.

For further information, please see the following documents:

+o The Samba documentation, available as part of the Samba
distribution. The distribution is available at:
ftp://ftp.samba.org/ <ftp://ftp.samba.org/>

+o The Linux Printing HOWTO.

+o The Print2Win Mini-HOWTO.

+o Protocol Standard For A NetBIOS Service On A TCP/UDP Transport.

RRFFCC 11000011
Concepts and Methods.

RRFFCC 11000022
Detailed Specifications.

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First, in order to use Samba your machines must be on a single
ethernet LAN segment using the TCP/IP protocol. Samba will not work
using other network protocols. This is generally easy since Linux and
Windows 95/98/NT ship with TCP/IP support. However, if you are using
Windows 3.X machines TCP/IP support will need to be added.

SMB services cannot be used across routers. If you want to do
something like that, you would need to set up an IP tunnel which is
beyond the scope of this document.

To get the latest source version of Samba, go to this URL and pick the
closest mirror site to you: ftp://ftp.samba.org/
<ftp://ftp.samba.org/>.
However, if you have installed the RedHat distribution of Linux, you
have the option of installing it as a package. Some other
distributions also include the Samba binaries.

The following two daemons are required for the Samba package. They
are typically installed in /usr/sbin and run either on boot from the
systems startup scripts or from inetd. Example scripts are shown in
``Running the Daemons''.

______________________________________________________________________
smbd (The SMB daemon)
nmbd (Provides NetBIOS nameserver support to clients)
______________________________________________________________________

Please note that the name service provided by the nmbd daemon is
different from the name service provided by the Domain Name Service
(DNS). NetBIOS name service is a 'Windows-style' name service used
for SMB. In other words, having DNS name service tells you nothing
about the state of the ability for Samba to resolve host names.

Typically, the following Samba binaries are installed in /usr/bin or
/usr/local/samba/bin, although the location is optional.

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smbclient (An SMB client for UNIX machines)
smbprint (A script to print to a printer on an SMB host)
smbprint.sysv (As above, but for SVR4 UNIX machines)
smbstatus (Lists the cuurent SMB connections for the local host)
smbrun (A 'glue' script to facilitate runnning applciations
on SMB hosts)
______________________________________________________________________

The binaries for smbfs file system support are discussed later in this
document.

Additionally, a script called 'print' is included with this HOWTO,
which serves as a useful front end to the smbprint script.

The Samba package is simple to install. Simply retrieve the source
from the location mentioned above, and read the file README in the
distribution. There is also a file called docs/INSTALL.txt in the
distribution that provides a simple step-by-step set of instructions.

Following installation, place the daemons in /usr/sbin and the
binaries in /usr/bin. Install the man pages in /usr/local/man.

When you made the Samba package, you would have specified in the
Makefile the location for the configuration file, smb.conf. This is
generally in /etc, but you can put it anywhere you like. For these
directions, we will presume that you specified the location of the
configuration file as /etc/smb.conf, the log file location as log file
= /var/log/samba-log.%m and the lock directory as lock directory =
/var/lock/samba.

Install the configuration file, smb.conf. Go to the directory where
Samba was built. Look in the subdirectory examples/simple and read
the file README. Copy the file smb.conf found in that directory to
/etc. BE CAREFUL! If you have a Linux distribution that already has
Samba installed, you may already have a Samba configuration file in
/etc. You should probably start with that one.
If you don't want to have your configuration file in /etc, put it
wherever you want to, then put a symlink in /etc:

______________________________________________________________________
ln -s /path/to/smb.conf /etc/smb.conf
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The two SMB daemons are /usr/sbin/smbd and /usr/sbin/nmbd.

You can run the Samba daemons from inetd or as stand-alone processes.
Samba will respond slightly faster as a standalone daemon than running
from inetd.

In either case, you should check the file /etc/services for lines that
look like this:

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netbios-ns 137/tcp nbns
netbios-ns 137/udp nbns
netbios-dgm 138/tcp nbdgm
netbios-dgm 138/udp nbdgm
netbios-ssn 139/tcp nbssn
______________________________________________________________________

Make sure they are all uncommented. Depending on your distribution,
you may even need to add them. Samba will not be able to bind to the
appropriate ports unless /etc/services has these entries.

To run the daemons from inetd, place the following lines in the inetd
configuration file, /etc/inetd.conf:

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# SAMBA NetBIOS services (for PC file and print sharing)
netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/smbd smbd
netbios-ns dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/nmbd nmbd
______________________________________________________________________

Then restart the inetd daemon by running the command:

______________________________________________________________________
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`
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To run the daemons from the system startup scripts, put the following
script in file called /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb (for a RedHat distribution)
and symbolically link it to the files specified in the comments:

______________________________________________________________________
#!/bin/sh

#
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb - starts and stops SMB services.
#
# The following files should be synbolic links to this file:
# symlinks: /etc/rc.d/rc1.d/K35smb (Kills SMB services on shutdown)
# /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S91smb (Starts SMB services in multiuser mode)
# /etc/rc.d/rc6.d/K35smb (Kills SMB services on reboot)
#

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

# Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting SMB services: "
daemon smbd -D
daemon nmbd -D
echo
touch /var/lock/subsys/smb
;;
stop)
echo -n "Shutting down SMB services: "
killproc smbd
killproc nmbd
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/smb
echo ""
;;
*)
echo "Usage: smb {start|stop}"
exit 1
esac
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If when starting Samba you get an error that says something about the
daemon failing to bind to port 139, then you probably have another
Samba process already running that hasn't yet shut down. Check a
process list (with 'ps auxww | grep mbd') to determine if another
Samba service is running.

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Samba configuration on a Linux (or other UNIX machine) is controlled
by a single file, /etc/smb.conf. This file determines which system
resources you want to share with the outside world and what
restrictions you wish to place on them.

Since the following sections will address sharing Linux drives and
printers with Windows machines, the smb.conf file shown in this
section is as simple as you can get, just for introductory purposes.

Don't worry about the details, yet. Later sections will introduce the
major concepts.

Each section of the file starts with a section header such as
[global], [homes], [printers], etc.

The [global] section defines a few variables that Samba will use to
define sharing for all resources.

The [homes] section allows a remote users to access their (and only
their) home directory on the local (Linux) machine). That is, users
trying to connect to this share from Windows machines, will be
connected to their personal home directories. Note that to do this,
they must have an account on the Linux box.

The sample smb.conf file below allows remote users to get to their
home directories on the local machine and to write to a temporary
directory. For a Windows user to see these shares, the Linux box has
to be on the local network. Then the user simply connects a network
drive from the Windows File Manager or Windows Explorer.

Note that in the following sections, additional entries for this file
will be given to allow more resources to be shared.

______________________________________________________________________
; /etc/smb.conf
;
; Make sure and restart the server after making changes to this file, ex:
; /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb stop
; /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start

[global]
; Uncomment this if you want a guest account
; guest account = nobody
log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m
lock directory = /var/lock/samba
share modes = yes

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
read only = no
create mode = 0750

[tmp]
comment = Temporary file space
path = /tmp
read only = no
public = yes
______________________________________________________________________

Having written a new smb.conf, it is useful to test it to verify its
correctness. You can test the correctness of a smb.conf file , using
the 'testparm' utility (man page: testparm); if testparm reports no
problems, smbd will correctly load the configuration file.

Here's a good trick: If your Samba server has more than one ethernet
interface, the smbd may bind to the wrong one. If so, you can force
it to bind to the intended one by adding a line that looks like this
to the [global] section of /etc/smb.conf:

______________________________________________________________________
interfaces = 192.168.1.1/24
______________________________________________________________________

where you replace the IP address above with the one that is assigned
to the correct ethernet interface. The "24" is correct for a Class C
network, but may have to be recalculated if you have subnetted the
network. The number relates to the netmask. Numbers for other
classes of networks are given in the IP-Masquerade mini-HOWTO.

There is now a GUI configuration tool for Samba: GtkSamba. See
http://www.open-systems.com/gtksamba.html <http://www.open-
systems.com/gtksamba.html>.

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As shown in the simple smb.conf above, sharing Linux drives with
Windows users is easy. However, like everything else with Samba, you
can control things to a large degree. Here are some examples:

To share a directory with the public, create a clone of the [tmp]
section above by adding something like this to smb.conf:

______________________________________________________________________
[public]
comment = Public Stuff
path = /home/public
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
______________________________________________________________________

To make the above directory readable by the public, but only writable
by people in group staff, modify the entry like this:

______________________________________________________________________
[public]
comment = Public Stuff
path = /home/public
public = yes
writable = yes
printable = no
write list = @staff
______________________________________________________________________

It used to be that easy; you would now be able to start Samba and
browse the shares from a Windows PC. However, Microsoft has recently
made life slightly more difficult for those using Samba. Windows 98,
Windows NT (service pack 3 or higher) and later builds of Windows 95
now use encrypted passwords by default. Samba uses unencrypted
passwords by default. You can't browse servers when either the client
or server is using encrypted passwords, because a connection cannot be
made anonymously.

You can tell if you have a password type mismatch between client and
server if when you try to connect to a share you see a dialog box
which reads something like "You are not authorized to access that
account from this machine".

You can either configure your Samba server to use encrypted passwords,
or configure the Windows machines to use unencrypted passwords.

To get Windows to work with encrypted SMB passwords:

Windows 95/98 =============

Using the registry editor (regedit), create the registry setting
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP Add a
new DWORD value: Value Name: EnablePlainTextPassword Data:
0x01.

Windows NT ==========

Using the registry editor (regedit), create the registry setting
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters
Add a new DWORD value: Value Name: EnablePlainTextPassword Data:
0x01

Once these registry changes have been made, reboot the Windows machine
and try to map a network drive on the Samba server again. It should
work as long as the Samba server is using plain text passwords.

To configure Samba to use encrypted passwords:

In the [global] section of /etc/smb.conf, add the following lines:

______________________________________________________________________
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
______________________________________________________________________

You are highly encouraged to read the files ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt
and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation before doing this!

If your clients and server are using encrypted passwords, you will not
be able to browse the available shares on the server until an initial
connection has been made with the appropriate authentication. To get
the initial connection, enter the share name manually in the Windows
File Manager or Explorer dialog box, in the form
'\\<hostname>\<sharename>'. Log onto the server with a username and
password that is valid on the server!

If you suspect that your NetBIOS name service is not correctly
configured (perhaps because you get 'host not found' errors when
trying to connect), try using just the IP address of the server:
'\\<host ip address>\<sharename>'.

In order to get filenames to appear correctly, you may also need to
set some options in the appropriate share section. These work for
Windows 95/98/NT clients, but may need to be modified if you have
Windows 3.X clients:

______________________________________________________________________
; Mangle case = yes seems to give the correct filenames
; for Win95/98/NT.
mangle case = yes

; If samba is case sensitive when looking for files
case sensitive = no

; Default case of files that are created
default case = lower

; Preserve case for all filenames
preserve case = yes

; Preserve case for dos (8.3) filenames
short preserve case = no
______________________________________________________________________

For other tricks to play with drive shares, see the Samba
documentation or man pages.

______________________________________________________________________
interfaces = 192.168.1.1/24
______________________________________________________________________

Note: The bit after the / is a reference to the subnet mask. "24" is
the value to use for an unsegmented Class C network. For more
information on subnet calculations, you might want to see
http://www.ziplink.net/~ralphb/IPSubnet/index.html
<http://www.ziplink.net/~ralphb/IPSubnet/index.html>.

There is a lot more to Samba configuration than this, but this will
get you started. If you want to do something more advanced, I refer
you to the Samba Web site mentioned above.

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An SMB client program for UNIX machines is included with the Samba
distribution. It provides an ftp-like interface on the command line.
You can use this utility to transfer files between a Windows 'server'
and a Linux client.

To see which shares are available on a given host, run:

______________________________________________________________________
/usr/sbin/smbclient -L host
______________________________________________________________________

where 'host' is the name of the machine that you wish to view. this
will return a list of 'service' names - that is, names of drives or
printers that it can share with you. Unless the SMB server has no
security configured, it will ask you for a password. Get it the
password for the 'guest' account or for your personal account on that
machine.

For example:

______________________________________________________________________
smbclient -L zimmerman
______________________________________________________________________

The output of this command should look something like this:

______________________________________________________________________
Server time is Sat Aug 10 15:58:27 1996
Timezone is UTC+10.0
Password:
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Windows NT 3.51] Server=[NT LAN Manager 3.51]

Server=[ZIMMERMAN] User=[] Workgroup=[WORKGROUP] Domain=[]

Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin
public Disk Public
C$ Disk Default share
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
OReilly Printer OReilly
print$ Disk Printer Drivers

This machine has a browse list:

Server Comment
--------- -------
HOPPER Samba 1.9.15p8
KERNIGAN Samba 1.9.15p8
LOVELACE Samba 1.9.15p8
RITCHIE Samba 1.9.15p8
ZIMMERMAN
______________________________________________________________________

The browse list shows other SMB servers with resources to share on the
network.

To use the client, run:

______________________________________________________________________
/usr/sbin/smbclient service <password>
______________________________________________________________________

where 'service' is a machine and share name. For example, if you are
trying to reach a directory that has been shared as 'public' on a
machine called zimmerman, the service would be called
\\zimmerman\public. However, due to shell restrictions, you will need
to escape the backslashes, so you end up with something like this:

______________________________________________________________________
/usr/sbin/smbclient \\\\zimmerman\\public mypasswd
______________________________________________________________________

where 'mypasswd' is the literal string of your password.

You will get the smbclient prompt:

______________________________________________________________________
Server time is Sat Aug 10 15:58:44 1996
Timezone is UTC+10.0
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Windows NT 3.51] Server=[NT LAN Manager 3.51]
smb: \>
______________________________________________________________________

Type 'h' to get help using smbclient:

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smb: \> h
ls dir lcd cd pwd
get mget put mput rename
more mask del rm mkdir
md rmdir rd prompt recurse
translate lowercase print printmode queue
cancel stat quit q exit
newer archive tar blocksize tarmode
setmode help ? !
smb: \>
______________________________________________________________________

If you can use ftp, you shouldn't need the man pages for smbclient.

Although you can use smbclient for testing, you will soon tire of it
for real work. For that you will probably want to use the smbfs
package. Smbfs comes with two simple utilties, smbmount and
smbumount. They work just like mount and umount for SMB shares.

The smbfs package is now included in most Linux distributions. One
important thing to note: You must have smbfs support compiled into
your kernel to use these utilities!

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To share a Linux printer with Windows machines, you need to make
certain that your printer is set up to work under Linux. If you can
print from Linux, setting up an SMB share of the printer is stright
forward.

See the Printing HOWTO to set up local printing.

Since the author used a printer connected to a Windows NT machine (a
long time ago - before converting our network nearly totally to
Linux), this section should not be taken as definitive, but merely a
suggestion. Anyone with details to share, please send them to
[email protected] so this section can be completed.

Add printing configuration to your smb.conf:

______________________________________________________________________
[global]
printing = bsd
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m
lock directory = /var/lock/samba

[printers]
comment = All Printers
security = server
path = /var/spool/lpd/lp
browseable = no
printable = yes
public = yes
writable = no
create mode = 0700

[ljet]
security = server
path = /var/spool/lpd/lp
printer name = lp
writable = yes
public = yes
printable = yes
print command = lpr -r -h -P %p %s
______________________________________________________________________

Make certain that the printer path (in this case under [ljet]) matches
the spool directory in /etc/printcap!

The lines:

______________________________________________________________________
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
______________________________________________________________________

controls whether all the printers in /etc/printcap should be loaded by
default. If you do this, there is no reason to set up printers
individually. The section [printers] specifies options for the
printers that you wish to explicitly difine. If the printing
subsystem you are using doesn't work this way (BSD), you need to set
up a fake printcap file (or to use the 'print command' technique, see
below). For more information on the printcap system see the Printing
HOWTO.

A useful technique to test the network connection is to change the
print command to:

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print command = cp %S /tmp/print.%P.%S
______________________________________________________________________

The resulting file can then be analyzed.

NOTE: There are some problems sharing printers on UNIX boxes with
Windows NT machines using Samba. One problem is with NT seeing the
shared printer properly. To fix this, see the notes in the Samba
distribution in the file docs/WinNT.txt. The other deals with
password problems. See the comments in the same file for an annoying
gain of understanding and failure to fix the problem.

Oleg L. Machulskiy ([email protected]) suggests that a better
print command to use in the above example would be:

______________________________________________________________________
print command = smb2ps %s | lpr -r -h -P %p
______________________________________________________________________

where 'smb2ps' is a script which transforms the spool file received
from Windows into usual a usable Postscript file. It must cut off
first 3 lines and last 2 lines, because these lines contain some PJL
or PCL codes.

That approach is only needed if your Windows machine is printing PCL
and not real Postscript. I have found that Windows 95/98/NT don't
have a generic Postscript driver per se, but the "Digital turbo
Printserver 20" driver acts as a good general Postscript driver for
most setups. I have also heard that the "Apple LaserWriter II NTX"
driver works for this purpose.

Jeff Stern ([email protected]) reported the following that
may be of help to some of you:

--------------------------%<---------------------------------- Problem
I was having was that I could print via lpd/lpr to my Linux printer,
from the Linux box itself. But I couldn't get it to print from a
remote Win95 machine. When I tried

smbclient \\eclectic\belen -P

and then tried to

print myfile

I got errors about access denied. SO I reset the permissions on my
/var/spool/lpd/lp1 directory to 777. I'm sorry, but that's what I had
to do. I suppose alternatively I could have message with putting
everyone on the Linux box in the 'lp' group, or made the directory be
owned by the group 'users', etc.. But for now, this works (with
ownership root:lp).

Finally, the other thing administrators should know is that the name
of the account on the WIndows machine (which is trying to use the
Linux printer via Samba) should have an equivalently-named account on
the Linux box. Thus, if there is a user named 'joe' on the Windows
machine, (\\eclectic\belen) then there should be a user named 'joe' on
the Linux box. Then 'joe's login password will be the password to
access eclectic's belen printer. This password will be asked for on
the Windows machine when setting up the printer on the Windows box
with Printers|Add Printer.

I kind of thought maybe this wouldn't be the case, since I have set up
my printer to be 'public' in the smb.conf. But apparently it still
asks for password. (The windows box unfortunately doesn't give you the
opportunity to supply a different user name to the remote (Linux)
printer. It just uses your local user name which you signed in as when
you started up Win95.
--------------------------%<----------------------------------

Dr. Michael Langner ([email protected] points out that write
permission problems on the /var/spool/lpd/ tree could be avoided by
use something like "path = /tmp" and "print command = lpr -r -P%p %s"
instead.

Sometimes, a Postscript parsing error will occur with Postscript
printing from Windows machines that causes an extra page to be printed
at the end of every print job. The last page will always have "%%[
Lastpage ]%%" at the top of it. This seems to happen with Windows 95
and 98 only and is because the Postscript is malformed.

One way to handle that is to use a script to remove that bit of bad
Postscript from the spooled jobs. Another way is to try to find a
better Windows Postscript driver. Probably the best way is to us
LPRng instead of Postscript to print to a Samba server.

Erik Ratcliffe ([email protected]) Caldera tells me that using LPRng
means that any printer driver can be used from Windows machines. On
the Samba server, they used an /etc/printcap entry that looked like
this:

______________________________________________________________________
raw:\
:rw:sh:
:lp=/dev/lp1
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/raw
:fx=flp
______________________________________________________________________

LPRng doesn't require :\ at the end of every line. A printer entry
will still need to be made in /etc/smb.conf for the physical printer.
The print command line needs to use the "raw" entry in /etc/printcap
and data must be sent to the printer in binary form. Try a print
command line like this:

______________________________________________________________________
print command = lpr -b -Praw %s
______________________________________________________________________

You may also need to set the spooling on the Windows95 end to print
directly to the printer instead of spooling.

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To share a printer on a Windows machine, you must do the following:

1. You must have the proper entries in /etc/printcap and they must
correspond to the local directory structure (for the spool
directory, etc).

2. You must have the script /usr/bin/smbprint. This comes with the
Samba source, but not with all Samba binary distributions. A
slightly modifed copy is discussed below.

3. If you want to convert ASCII files to Postscript, you must have
nenscript, or its equivalent. nenscript is a Postscript converter
and is generally installed in /usr/bin.

4. You may wish to make Samba printing easier by having an easy-to-use
front end. A simple perl script to handle ASCII, Postscript or
created Postscript is given below.

5. You could also use MagicFilter to do the above. The details on
setting up MagicFilter are given below the perl script.
MagicFilter has advantages because it knows how to automatically
convert a lot of file formats.

6.

a. The /etc/printcap entry below is for an HP 5MP printer on a
Windows NT host. The entries are as follows:

________________________________________________________________
cm - comment
lp - device name to open for output
sd - the printer's spool directory (on the local machine)
af - the accounting file
mx - the maximum file size (zero is unlimited)
if - name of the input filter (script)
________________________________________________________________

For more information, see the Printing HOWTO or the man page for
printcap.

___________________________________________________________________
# /etc/printcap
#
# //zimmerman/oreilly via smbprint
#
lp:\
:cm=HP 5MP Postscript OReilly on zimmerman:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/bin/smbprint:
___________________________________________________________________

Make certain that the spool and accounting directories exist and
are writable. Ensure that the 'if' line holds the proper path to
the smbprint script (given below) and make sure that the proper
device is pointed to (the /dev special file).

Next is the smbprint script itself. It is usually placed in
/usr/bin and is attributable to Andrew Tridgell, the person who
created Samba as far as I know. It comes with the Samba source
distribution, but is absent from some binary distributions, so I
have recreated it here.

You may wish to look at this carefully. There are some minor
alterations that have shown themselves to be useful.

___________________________________________________________________
#!/bin/sh -x

# This script is an input filter for printcap printing on a unix machine. It
# uses the smbclient program to print the file to the specified smb-based
# server and service.
# For example you could have a printcap entry like this
#
# smb:lp=/dev/null:sd=/usr/spool/smb:sh:if=/usr/local/samba/smbprint
#
# which would create a unix printer called "smb" that will print via this
# script. You will need to create the spool directory /usr/spool/smb with
# appropriate permissions and ownerships for your system.

# Set these to the server and service you wish to print to
# In this example I have a WfWg PC called "lapland" that has a printer
# exported called "printer" with no password.

#
# Script further altered by [email protected] (Michael Hamilton)
# so that the server, service, and password can be read from
# a /usr/var/spool/lpd/PRINTNAME/.config file.
#
# In order for this to work the /etc/printcap entry must include an
# accounting file (af=...):
#
# cdcolour:\
# :cm=CD IBM Colorjet on 6th:\
# :sd=/var/spool/lpd/cdcolour:\
# :af=/var/spool/lpd/cdcolour/acct:\
# :if=/usr/local/etc/smbprint:\
# :mx=0:\
# :lp=/dev/null:
#
# The /usr/var/spool/lpd/PRINTNAME/.config file should contain:
# server=PC_SERVER
# service=PR_SHARENAME
# password="password"
#
# E.g.
# server=PAULS_PC
# service=CJET_371
# password=""

#
# Debugging log file, change to /dev/null if you like.
#
logfile=/tmp/smb-print.log
# logfile=/dev/null

#
# The last parameter to the filter is the accounting file name.
#
spool_dir=/var/spool/lpd/lp
config_file=$spool_dir/.config

# Should read the following variables set in the config file:
# server
# service
# password
# user
eval `cat $config_file`

#
# Some debugging help, change the >> to > if you want to same space.
#
echo "server $server, service $service" >> $logfile

(
# NOTE You may wish to add the line `echo translate' if you want automatic
# CR/LF translation when printing.
echo translate
echo "print -"
cat
) | /usr/bin/smbclient "\\\\$server\\$service" $password -U $user -N -P >> $logfile
___________________________________________________________________

Most Linux distributions come with nenscript for converting ASCII
documents to Postscript. The following perl script makes life eas-
ier be providing a simple interface to Linux printing via smbprint.

___________________________________________________________________
Usage: print [-a|c|p] <filename>
-a prints <filename> as ASCII
-c prints <filename> formatted as source code
-p prints <filename> as Postscript
If no switch is given, print attempts to
guess the file type and print appropriately.
___________________________________________________________________

Using smbprint to print ASCII files tends to truncate long lines.
This script breaks long lines on whitespace (instead of in the mid-
dle of a word), if possible.

The source code formatting is done with nenscript. It takes an
ASCII file and foramts it in 2 columns with a fancy header (date,
filename, etc). It also numbers the lines. Using this as an exam-
ple, other types of formatting can be accomplished.

Postscript documents are already properly formatted, so they pass
through directly.

___________________________________________________________________
#!/usr/bin/perl

# Script: print
# Authors: Brad Marshall, David Wood
# Plugged In Communications
# Date: 960808
#
# Script to print to a Postscript printer via Samba.
# Purpose: Takes files of various types as arguments and
# processes them appropriately for piping to a Samba print script.
#
# Currently supported file types:
#
# ASCII - ensures that lines longer than $line_length characters wrap on
# whitespace.
# Postscript - Takes no action.
# Code - Formats in Postscript (using nenscript) to display
# properly (landscape, font, etc).
#

# Set the maximum allowable length for each line of ASCII text.
$line_length = 76;

# Set the path and name of the Samba print script
$print_prog = "/usr/bin/smbprint";

# Set the path and name to nenscript (the ASCII-->Postscript converter)
$nenscript = "/usr/bin/nenscript";

unless ( -f $print_prog ) {
die "Can't find $print_prog!";
}
unless ( -f $nenscript ) {
die "Can't find $nenscript!";
}

&ParseCmdLine(@ARGV);

# DBG
print "filetype is $filetype\n";

if ($filetype eq "ASCII") {
&wrap($line_length);
} elsif ($filetype eq "code") {
&codeformat;
} elsif ($filetype eq "ps") {
&createarray;
} else {
print "Sorry..no known file type.\n";
exit 0;
}
# Pipe the array to smbprint
open(PRINTER, "|$print_prog") || die "Can't open $print_prog: $!\n";
foreach $line (@newlines) {
print PRINTER $line;
}
# Send an extra linefeed in case a file has an incomplete last line.
print PRINTER "\n";
close(PRINTER);
print "Completed\n";
exit 0;

# --------------------------------------------------- #
# Everything below here is a subroutine #
# --------------------------------------------------- #
sub ParseCmdLine {
# Parses the command line, finding out what file type the file is

# Gets $arg and $file to be the arguments (if the exists)
# and the filename
if ($#_ < 0) {
&usage;
}
# DBG
# foreach $element (@_) {
# print "*$element* \n";
# }

$arg = shift(@_);
if ($arg =~ /\-./) {
$cmd = $arg;
# DBG
# print "\$cmd found.\n";

$file = shift(@_);
} else {
$file = $arg;
}

# Defining the file type
unless ($cmd) {
# We have no arguments

if ($file =~ /\.ps$/) {
$filetype = "ps";
} elsif ($file =~ /\.java$|\.c$|\.h$|\.pl$|\.sh$|\.csh$|\.m4$|\.inc$|\.html$|\.htm$/) {
$filetype = "code";
} else {
$filetype = "ASCII";
}

# Process $file for what type is it and return $filetype
} else {
# We have what type it is in $arg
if ($cmd =~ /^-p$/) {
$filetype = "ps";
} elsif ($cmd =~ /^-c$/) {
$filetype = "code";
} elsif ($cmd =~ /^-a$/) {
$filetype = "ASCII"
}
}
}

sub usage {
print "
Usage: print [-a|c|p] <filename>
-a prints <filename> as ASCII
-c prints <filename> formatted as source code
-p prints <filename> as Postscript
If no switch is given, print attempts to
guess the file type and print appropriately.\n
";
exit(0);
}

sub wrap {
# Create an array of file lines, where each line is < the
# number of characters specified, and wrapped only on whitespace

# Get the number of characters to limit the line to.
$limit = pop(@_);

# DBG
#print "Entering subroutine wrap\n";
#print "The line length limit is $limit\n";

# Read in the file, parse and put into an array.
open(FILE, "<$file") || die "Can't open $file: $!\n";
while(<FILE>) {
$line = $_;

# DBG
#print "The line is:\n$line\n";

# Wrap the line if it is over the limit.
while ( length($line) > $limit ) {

# DBG
#print "Wrapping...";

# Get the first $limit +1 characters.
$part = substr($line,0,$limit +1);

# DBG
#print "The partial line is:\n$part\n";

# Check to see if the last character is a space.
$last_char = substr($part,-1, 1);
if ( " " eq $last_char ) {
# If it is, print the rest.

# DBG
#print "The last character was a space\n";

substr($line,0,$limit + 1) = "";
substr($part,-1,1) = "";
push(@newlines,"$part\n");
} else {
# If it is not, find the last space in the
# sub-line and print up to there.

# DBG
#print "The last character was not a space\n";

# Remove the character past $limit
substr($part,-1,1) = "";
# Reverse the line to make it easy to find
# the last space.
$revpart = reverse($part);
$index = index($revpart," ");
if ( $index > 0 ) {
substr($line,0,$limit-$index) = "";
push(@newlines,substr($part,0,$limit-$index)
. "\n");
} else {
# There was no space in the line, so
# print it up to $limit.
substr($line,0,$limit) = "";
push(@newlines,substr($part,0,$limit)
. "\n");
}
}
}
push(@newlines,$line);
}
close(FILE);
}

sub codeformat {
# Call subroutine wrap then filter through nenscript
&wrap($line_length);

# Pipe the results through nenscript to create a Postscript
# file that adheres to some decent format for printing
# source code (landscape, Courier font, line numbers).
# Print this to a temporary file first.
$tmpfile = "/tmp/nenscript$$";
open(FILE, "|$nenscript -2G -i$file -N -p$tmpfile -r") ||
die "Can't open nenscript: $!\n";
foreach $line (@newlines) {
print FILE $line;
}
close(FILE);

# Read the temporary file back into an array so it can be
# passed to the Samba print script.
@newlines = ("");
open(FILE, "<$tmpfile") || die "Can't open $file: $!\n";
while(<FILE>) {
push(@newlines,$_);
}
close(FILE);
system("rm $tmpfile");
}

sub createarray {
# Create the array for postscript
open(FILE, "<$file") || die "Can't open $file: $!\n";
while(<FILE>) {
push(@newlines,$_);
}
close(FILE);
}
___________________________________________________________________

Now the MagicFilter way. Thanks to Alberto Menegazzi
([email protected]) for this information.

Alberto says:

--------------------------%<---------------------------------- 1)
Install MagicFilter with the filter for the printers you need in
/usr/bin/local but DON'T fill /etc/printcap with the suggestion
given by the documentation from MagicFilter.

2) Write the /etc/printcap like this way (it's done for my LaserJet
4L):

lp|ljet4l:\ :cm=HP LaserJet 4L:\ :lp=/dev/null:\
# or /dev/lp1 :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4l:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4l/acct:\ :sh:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/local/bin/main-filter:

You should explain that the lp=/dev/... is opened for locking so
"virtual" devices one for every remote printer should be used.

Example creating with : touch /dev/ljet4l

3) Write the filter /usr/local/bin/main-filter the same you suggest
using the ljet4l-filter instead of cat.

Here's mine.

#! /bin/sh logfile=/var/log/smb-print.log
spool_dir=/var/spool/lpd/ljet4l ( echo "print -"
/usr/local/bin/ljet4l-filter ) | /usr/bin/smbclient
"\\\\SHIR\\HPLJ4" -N -P >> $logfile

P.S. : here is the quote from the Print2Win mini-Howto about lock-
ing and why creating virtual printers

---Starts here

Hint from Rick Bressler :

Good tip sheet. I use something very similar. One helpful tip,
this is not a particularly good idea:

:lp=/dev/null:\

lpr does an 'exclusive' open on the file you specify as lp=. It
does this in order to prevent multiple processes from trying to
print to the dame printer at the same time.

The side effect of this is that in your case, eng and colour can't
print at the same time, (usually more or less transparent since
they probably print quickly and since they queue you probably don't
notice) but any other process that tries to write to /dev/null will
break!

On a single user system, probably not a big problem. I have a sys-
tem with over 50 printers. It would be a problem there.

The solution is to create a dummy printer for each. Eg: touch
/dev/eng.

I have modified the lp entries in the printcap file above to take
into account Rick's suggestion. I did the following:

#touch /dev/eng #touch /dev/colour

---Ends here

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___________________________________________________________________
#!/bin/bash

clear
echo Initialising ...
checkdate=`date | awk '{print $1}'`

if [ -f "~agnea1/backup-dir/backup-data" ]; then

echo "ERROR: No config file for today!"
echo "FATAL!"
exit 1
fi

if [ -d "~agnea1/backup-dir/temp" ]; then

echo "ERROR: No tempoary directory found!"
echo
echo "Attempting to create"
cd ~agnea1
cd backup-dir
mkdir temp
echo "Directory Made - temp"
fi

if [ "$1" = "" ]; then

echo "ERROR: enter in a machine name (ie: cdwriter)"
exit 1
fi

if [ "$2" = "" ]; then

echo "ERROR: enter in a SMB (Lan Manager) Resource (ie: work)"
exit 1
fi

if [ "$3" = "" ]; then

echo "ERROR: enter in an IP address for $1 (ie:
130.xxx.xxx.52)" exit 1
fi

#############################################################################
# Main Section
#
#############################################################################

cd ~agnea1/backup-dir/temp
rm -r ~agnea1/backup-dir/temp/*
cd ~agnea1/backup-dir/

case "$checkdate"
in
Mon)
echo "Backuping for Monday"
cat backup-data | /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient
\\\\$1\\$2 -I$3 -N echo "Complete"

if [ -d "~agnea1/backup-dir/Monday" ]; then
echo "Directory Monday Not found ...
making" mkdir
~agnea1/backup-dir/Monday
fi

echo "Archiving ..."
cd ~agnea1/backup-dir/temp
tar -cf monday.tar * echo "done ..."
rm ~agnea1/backup-dir/Monday/monday.tar
mv monday.tar ~agnea1/backup-dir/Monday
;;

Tue)
echo "Backuping for Tuesday"
cat backup-data | /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient
\\\\$1\\$2 -I$3 -N echo "Complete"

if [ -d "~agnea1/backup-dir/Tuesday" ]; then
echo "Directory Tuesday Not found ...
making" mkdir
~agnea1/backup-dir/Tuesday
fi
echo "Archiving ..."
cd ~agnea1/backup-dir/temp
tar -cf tuesday.tar *
echo "done ..."
rm ~agnea1/backup-dir/Tuesday/tuesday.tar
mv tuesday.tar ~agnea1/backup-dir/Tuesday
;;

Wed)
echo "Backuping for Wednesday"
cat backup-data | /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient
\\\\$1\\$2 -I$3 -N echo "Complete"

if [ -d "~agnea1/backup-dir/Wednesday" ]; then
echo "Directory Wednesday Not found
... making" mkdir
~agnea1/backup-dir/Wednesday
fi
echo "Archiving ..."
cd ~agnea1/backup-dir/temp
tar -cf wednesday.tar *
echo "done ..."
rm ~agnea1/backup-dir/Wednesday/wednesday.tar
mv wednesday.tar ~agnea1/backup-dir/Wednesday
;;

Thu)
echo "Backuping for Thrusday"
cat backup-data | /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient
\\\\$1\\$2 -I$3 -N echo "Complete"

if [ -d "~agnea1/backup-dir/Thursday" ]; then
echo "Directory Thrusday Not found ...
making" mkdir
~agnea1/backup-dir/Thursday
fi
echo "Archiving ..."
cd ~agnea1/backup-dir/temp
tar -cf thursday.tar *
echo "done ..."
rm ~agnea1/backup-dir/Thursday/thursday.tar
mv thursday.tar ~agnea1/backup-dir/Thursday
;;

Fri)
echo "Backuping for Friday"
cat backup-data | /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient
\\\\$1\\$2 -I$3 -N echo "Complete"

if [ -d "~agnea1/backup-dir/Friday" ]; then
echo "Directory Friday Not found ...
making" mkdir
~agnea1/backup-dir/Friday
fi
echo "Archiving ..."
cd ~agnea1/backup-dir/temp
tar -cf friday.tar *
echo "done ..."
rm ~agnea1/backup-dir/Friday/friday.tar
mv friday.tar ~agnea1/backup-dir/Friday
;;

*)
echo "FATAL ERROR: Unknown variable passed for day"
exit 1;;

esac
###########
___________________________________________________________________

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