samba - Sep 1998 - Printer banner always 'nobody'

I've had this problem as long as I've been using samba: every time
anyone prints from a PC they get a banner page labeling them 'nobody.'

Now, I realize this has to do with the guest account being 'nobody,' and
the server is passing that name to the printer.  It can get very
frustrating, though, when lots of folks use the same printer and all of
the jobs have the same name on them.

So I guess my question would be, is there a way to print using the
username instead of the guest account?

I'm using v1.9.16p9 on a Solaris 2.4 machine printing to HP Laserjet
4m+.

>I've had this problem as long as I've been using samba: every time
>anyone prints from a PC they get a banner page labeling them
'nobody.'

I use rlpr and a custom banner page, I call a shell script and I pass the
samba info to the script.  I'll show you, you will want to remove the nobody
restriction, as all user are authenticated on my system.  One of the
niceities of doing it yourseld is I also have both the IP address, and the
NetBios computer name on the banner page as well.

rlpr can be found somewhere on the internet.  It's just a user level program
to do lpr, without /etc/printcap.

Eric Warnke

smb.conf


[indian1]
   comment = Indian Quad Office - Lexmark OptraLXN+
   printer = queind1
   path = /tmp
   public = no
   printable = yes
   writable = no
   browsable = yes
   invalid users = nobody seneca tuscaror
   printer driver = Lexmark Optra PS
   postscript= no
   print command = /export/home/samba/bin/print_script.pl %U %s
169.226.224.125 indian1 %M OptraLXN+ Indian#1

and here is the print_script.pl

miranda% [root] more print_script.pl
#! /usr/local/bin/perl

open(RLPR,"|/export/home/samba/bin/rlpr
-Q$ARGV[0]\.$ARGV[3]\.$ARGV[4]\@$ARG
V[2]")||die("Rlpr > /dev/null");
open(BANNER, "/opt/lexmark/markvision/etc/banners/banner_ps $ARGV[3]
$ARGV[0] $ARGV[4] $ARGV[5] $ARGV[6]|")||die("Banner?");
open(DATA,"$ARGV[1]")||die("Bad input file");
while( $line = <BANNER> ) {
    print RLPR ($line);
}
print RLPR ("\cD");
while( $line = <DATA> ) {
    print RLPR ($line);
}
`rm $ARGV[1] > /dev/null`

banner_ps is a shell script that generates a lexmark banner page with the
appropriate subtitutions.

I just add the following line in the definition of the share printer in the
smb.conf file

force user = %U

-C. Dumont

> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 16:18:43 -0700
> From: Michael Page <michael.page@exemplar.com>
> To: samba@samba.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Printer banner always 'nobody'
> Message-ID: <3602EA53.A11993E3@exemplar.com>
> 
> I've had this problem as long as I've been using samba: every time
> anyone prints from a PC they get a banner page labeling them
'nobody.'
> 
> Now, I realize this has to do with the guest account being 
> 'nobody,' and
> the server is passing that name to the printer.  It can get very
> frustrating, though, when lots of folks use the same printer 
> and all of
> the jobs have the same name on them.
> 
> So I guess my question would be, is there a way to print using the
> username instead of the guest account?
> 
> I'm using v1.9.16p9 on a Solaris 2.4 machine printing to HP Laserjet
> 4m+.
> 
Why not simply turn the banner page off?  If you are using network
printing on the HP, then the JetDirect card has the ability to print a
banner page also.  To turn it off there you will need to telnet into the
printer and type >banner: 0 to turn the banner page off.

The other option is to give _everyone_ an account on your unix box (even
if you give them a null shell so that they cant log in) so that their
names appear correctly on the banner page.


Regards,

Darren Smith
Unix Administrator
CUDiv - Olympic Dam
ext. 87242

i guess you have sambe on unix...


I nerver did it, but the lpr command has option -U which permit you to
pass another user name for the burst page...
Why not gat the username with %u and have the print command like
lpr -P.... -U %u ....

you may have to modify /etc/printcap so the user name translation can be
done for a process run by nobody (normaly it is only permitted for daemon
process)

you should read a little the man pages for lpr and printcap :o)))

hope this help 

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