[plug] Samba printer spools?

Andrew Simmonds simm0 at ii.net
Sun Oct 7 13:46:41 WST 2001


Have a good look at swat. Its made by the same people that make samba.
It allows you to administer various parts of samba through a web
interface. I use this for all my linux shares but i'm not to sure about
the extent of the printer support since I print to a windows printer
share.


On Sun, 2001-10-07 at 12:16, Andrew Furey wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know of any program to manipulate a Samba
> printer share from a Windows machine?
> 
> I have a printer connected to a Linux box, and I would
> like something (preferably CGI/Perl, so I can
> integrate it into the existing admin stuff I have) to
> allow any user to cancel a print job. (That is, a job
> which has left the Windows machine's printer queue and
> is solely on the Linux spool.)
> 
> If nothing else I could simply delete all jobs in
> /var/spool/lpd and then restart lpd for good measure,
> but I was wondering if there was an existing system
> that was more interactive... or is there something
> which is part of Samba to do this already?
> 
> TIA
> Andrew
> 
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