BSD Ports

print/cups-smb-backend 1.0_12 DragonFly

CUPS backend for printing to Windows servers

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
Categories
print
Package size
1.2 KiB, 0.0 KiB installed

Description

CUPS smb backend allows *nix users to print to Windows-attached printers via smbspool program, which comes with Samba.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 1.0, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlyprint/cups-smb-backend1.0_12 newestnone known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDprint/cups-smb-backend1.0_12 newestnone known-[email protected]-
MidnightBSDprint/cups-smb-backend1.0_2 newestno data-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDprint/cups-smb-backend1.0_12 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDprint/cups-smb-backend1.0_12 newestno data-[email protected]-

Install

Binary package:

pkg install cups-smb-backend

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/print/cups-smb-backend && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Run dependencies 2

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

CUPS smb backend is now installed.

Please configure your samba environment if
you haven't already done so. To do so edit

/usr/local/etc/smb.conf

You can then add a new printer to CUPS.
smbspool(8) manpage describes device URI
format. In most cases (latest samba 2.x
and samba 3.x), it's something like this:

smb://username:password@server/printer
smb://username:password@workgroup/server/printer

But a CUPS article describes another syntax,
so beware.

===>   NOTICE:

The cups-smb-backend port currently does not have a maintainer. As a result, it is
more likely to have unresolved issues, not be up-to-date, or even be removed in
the future. To volunteer to maintain this port, please create an issue at:

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla

More information about port maintainership is available at:

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/#ports-contributing