samba - Aug 2003 - Print Job Names Are Obscure

Hello all,

Is there any way to stuff a more descriptive tag into a print job name?
The jobs we're printing now are of the type: smbprn.003447.sdfasa

I seem to remember a way to put the sending machine's name into the job
name.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

-adam
University of Denver

Look at the %J variable in the smb.conf man page. That contains the job
name. Careful, as you will need to put '' around it in most cases to get
it to work. Then figure out (with man lp or man lpr) how to pass a job
name to the print job. On my system, it is:

lpr -J'%J'

HTH!

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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, adam r. christopher wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Is there any way to stuff a more descriptive tag into a print job name?
> The jobs we're printing now are of the type: smbprn.003447.sdfasa
>
> I seem to remember a way to put the sending machine's name into the job
> name.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> -adam
> University of Denver
>
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On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 13:34, adam r. christopher wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Is there any way to stuff a more descriptive tag into a print job name?
> The jobs we're printing now are of the type: smbprn.003447.sdfasa
> 
> I seem to remember a way to put the sending machine's name into the job
> name.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Since nobody else seems to be responding...
(and since I spent a little time at DU ;)

If you're using cups - it looks like you are (you really should specify
that info in your original post...) this may apply to you.
 
I think you can't control the job names that get submitted unless
you don't use the cups api and use the lpr interface to cups instead.
Then you can use the % variables to sumbit the jobs to be whatever you
want.

if you want machine name you could use %m i think...

best wishes

brad

PS - I hope somebody comes along and says - no you can do it using the
cups API like this - ...

This works for me with lprng:

[ps]
	comment = Filtered for Z53
	path = /tmp
	read only = No
	create mask = 0700
	guest ok = yes
	hosts allow = 192.168.
	printable = Yes
	printing = lprng
 	print command = echo %J %p %s  >>  /tmp/junkJ;\
                       a="`echo '%J' | sed "s/^.*-
//"`" ;\
	               echo This is truncated $a >> /tmp/junkJ;\
                       /usr/bin/lpr -Pps  -J"$a"  %s;\
                        rm %s
	lpq command = /usr/bin/lpq -Pps
	lprm command = /usr/bin/lprm -Pps %j
	lppause command = /usr/sbin/lpc hold ps %j
	lpresume command = /usr/sbin/lpc release ps %j
	share modes = No
        use client driver = yes     

The truncation is to get rid of the boilerplate with which some programs prefix
their
print job names.

Joel

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:34:20AM -0600, adam r. christopher
wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Is there any way to stuff a more descriptive tag into a print job name?
> The jobs we're printing now are of the type: smbprn.003447.sdfasa
> 
> I seem to remember a way to put the sending machine's name into the job
> name.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> -adam
> University of Denver
> 
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