samba - Nov 1998 - File name in the print command

Hi, 

  I just want to ask you if someone have had this problem,
  if this is a bug, a "feature" or the expected behavior.

  We use Samba 1.9.18p10 on slackware linux as a print server.
  This print server is dedicated to students so we print a 
  banner with every print job in order to be able to distinguish
  the beginning and ending of a students job.

  The problem appears when we try to print the first filename 
  of the job in the banner: we don't have access to this 
  information in the print command. The %s and %f macros give 
  us the spool file name (not the "real" filename). 

  When we print from a Windows 95  the spool file name is
  formet as /printer_path/<client_name>.<ramdom_number>, but
  when we print using smbclient the spool file is 
  /printer_path/<real_filename>.<random_number>.

  My question is:

  - Is there any way to know the original name when we print
  from  Win95?
  - Who choose this name? The samba server or the client?


  Please, if there is anybody who is printing banners and this 
  works for him, tell me which configuration is using 
  (Samba version, system, relevant smb.conf parameters, ...)


  It would be great to have another macro with the filename
  the client knows. 

  
  
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                            Miquel Bonastre (miquel@fib.upc.es)
                            Area de Sistemes Unix (LCFIB)
                            Facultat d'Informatica de Barcelona
                            Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

>  The problem appears when we try to print the first filename
>  of the job in the banner: we don't have access to this
>  information in the print command. The %s and %f macros give
>  us the spool file name (not the "real" filename).

...
>  - Is there any way to know the original name when we print
>  from  Win95?
>  - Who choose this name? The samba server or the client?

So far as I understand, the Windows machine doesn't send the name of the
file to the printer queue on your unix machine, so it is impossible for
Samba to know the original name of the file.  The Samba server chooses the
name of the spool file based on the client name and some number (perhaps
process id?).

Not much good news there, but there is a trick I picked up for our site
here.  Our printer is a postscript printer, so when our windows machines
send print jobs to the unix server, they naturally render the documents to
postscript.  A line or two from the top of the postscript file most windows
programs will include the original name of the document - something like
'%%Title: Microsoft Word - Timesheet.doc'.  I've written a Perl
script which
replaces lpq (for Samba only) that extracts this title and uses it in the
print queue visible to Windows machines  - I'm pretty sure you could do the
same for a banner page.

CU!   Mike.