smb-pdf-printer / write username

overlord73 · 07-22-2005, 03:44 AM

hello,
I want to realize a samba-pdf-printer.
so far so good.have a script that calls ps2pdf to create a .pdf in PDF-Share named a few date+time parameters.
my goal is to append the username who makes the .pdf.
"logname" does not work via samba.
does anybody have any (other) ideas or corrections?

pdfscript:

Code:

..
USER=`logname`
ps2pdf $1 $OUTDIR/$USER-$DATE.temp

entries in smb.conf:

Code:

[PDFprinter]
        path = /tmp
        directory = /var/spool/pdf
        printable = yes
        writeable = no
        create mask = 0700
#       create mask = 0777
#       guest ok = yes
        printer name = lp
        print command = /usr/bin/printpdf %s
        lpq command =
        lprm command =
        use client driver = Yes

[PDF-Share]
        path = /var/spool/pdf
        browseable = yes
        writeable = yes
#       guest ok = yes
#        force user = nobody

overlord73 · 07-22-2005, 08:26 AM

....the samba-account seems to be ´nobody´. well, how can I grep the username who connects actually to smb-share/smb-printer??

ps: samba is a ADS-member!

overlord73 · 07-25-2005, 08:32 AM

no ideas? :-(

another solution could be, to give the user a "where-to-save-messagebox" and not to save the .pdfs automatically.

but how to realize????

how do you guys implement a sharing pdf-printer?