Samba PDF Email

Justin Bennett justin.bennett at dynabrade.com
Thu Sep 11 11:05:08 EDT 2003


ok I'll take a look.
Justin


Darin Perusich wrote:

> i don't think this is possible, you might want to take a look at 
> modifying smbfax. it works similare to what you're trying to do, you 
> create a generic printer and print to it, then behind the scenes it 
> emails the user a link to a website where you fill in the info, name, 
> company, fax number, etc.
>
> Justin Bennett wrote:
>
>> I'm creating a samba printer that will email a PDF, could be usefull 
>> for emailing POs ect. I have the script and printer setup, I modified 
>> the script to create a PDF from samba, and had it attach to an email 
>> and send, rather than save it in a users home directory. It works 
>> fine when I hard code the to address in the script. I was wondering 
>> how to pass an email address to samba from windows, so I can then 
>> hand it to my script. I assume I may need a custom print driver?
>>
>> My Setup:
>> [pdfmail]
>>   path = /tmp
>>   printable = yes
>>   guest ok = yes
>>   print command = /usr/bin/emailpdf %s %u
>>   lpq command =
>>   lprm command =
>>
>> emailpdf:
>> #!/bin/sh
>> DATE=`date +%b%d-%H%M%S`
>>
>>
>> OUTDIR=/tmp
>> /usr/bin/ps2pdf13 /tmp/$1 $OUTDIR/$2-$DATE.pdf
>> chmod 660 $OUTDIR/$2-$DATE.pdf
>> sendEmail -m "Emailed PDF" -f xxx at dynabrade.com -t xxx at dynabrade.com 
>> -u "Emailed PDF" -a $OUTDIR/$2-$DATE.pdf
>> rm $1
>> rm $OUTDIR/$2-$DATE.pdf
>>
>> Justin Bennett
>> Network Administrator
>> RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
>> Dynabrade, Inc.
>> 8989 Sheridan Dr.
>> Clarence, NY 14031
>>
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>

-- 
Justin Bennett
Network Administrator
RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
Dynabrade, Inc.
8989 Sheridan Dr.
Clarence, NY 14031
 





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