Hello
Using Samba 2.2.8a on a Redhat 7.2 box
I set up a PDF generator relying on Samba and a shell script to create the output.
This works fine but I have a further trouble that I am stumped by. The files cannot be viewed from within a Citrix session (the point of the entire exercise) unless they are available from this one NT Server share. So if I mount a Windows NT server share under '/mnt/gpsc/pdfs' and then redirect the output to that directory, everything looks like it works but I get no output.
I can create/edit files, as a variety of users, on this NT share from the Linux box so I think that part is fine but I cannot do this from Samba. I would normally expect some sort of complaint in the form of a log entry but nothing shows up in the logs (log level = 3).
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[PDFFiles]
path = /mnt/gpsc/pdfs
invalid users =
read only = No
guest ok = Yes[Create a PDF]
comment = Check your 'K:' drive for your .PDF file. Check in the folder named 'PDFFiles'.
path = /tmp
guest ok = Yes
printable = Yes
print command = /usr/local/bin/printpdf %s %m %U
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*AND*
---------8<----snip from 'printpdf'-----------
# !/bin/bash
# /usr/local/bin/printpdf
# written by Blue Groper
# Last modified 29/9/03 (d/m/y)
# Modified by Anzac 25-1-04
# Modified by Steven Macfarlane 27.5.04 - Trying to get it to write to '/mnt/gpsc/pdfs'
#
# Script to generated pdf files and a message for Windows domain users
# with filename. Windows 98 clients must have WinPopup loaded.
#
# Count = value from /etc/pdf/pdfcount files. Used for part of output filename.
SAMBAUSERNAME=$1
# (%s from /etc/samba/samba.conf call) MACHINENETBIOSNAME=$2
# (%m from /etc/samba/samba.conf call) NAMEFILE=$3
# (%U from /etc/samba/samba.conf call) OUTPUTDIR=/mnt/gpsc/pdfs
# (Can be mapped in GPSC domain as network drive Q: if required for MESSAGE below)
# Write the variables somewhere, handy when it is broken
# Uncommment line below if no output file see if file is being created
# Must comment out MachineNetBiosName line for this to work #echo "SambaPrintFileName: $1">/tmp/pdfdebug
# Machine name to check popup going to correct netbios name echo "MachineNetBiosName: $2">/tmp/pdfdebug
# Username supplied to samba for creating filename echo "SambaUserName: $3">>/tmp/pdfdebug
# Options are not essential, but useful to control finer features of pdf's OPTIONS="-dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true"
# Counter ensures meaningless but unique filenames PDFCOUNTFILE=/etc/pdf/"pdfcount" if [ -f $PDFCOUNTFILE ] ; then COUNT=`cat $PDFCOUNTFILE` else COUNT=0 fi let COUNT=COUNT+1
# write counter to /etc/pdf/pdfcount echo "$COUNT">$PDFCOUNTFILE
# filename for pdf output based on Windows Username and COUNT number OUTPUTFILENAME=$NAMEFILE-$COUNT.pdf
# Send the message first to make it seem faster.
MESSAGE="\\134\134PdfServer\134pdfs\134$OUTPUTFILENAME has been created"
echo -e $MESSAGE | smbclient -M $MACHINENETBIOSNAME -U "PDF SERVER" > /dev/null 2>&1
# Finally, make the pdf... ps2pdf13 $OPTIONS /tmp/$SAMBAUSERNAME $OUTPUTDIR/$OUTPUTFILENAME
# Remove the temporary file written by Samba rm /tmp/$SAMBAUSERNAME
# End
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Any helpful guidance would be welcomed,
Thank you for reading
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