> > > On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, William Hooper wrote: > >> >> Brian Truter said: >> [snip] >> > Basically, in our company, we have Regional Managers from all over the >> > midwest call into the system to check their mail and other tasks. They >> > cannot print to their local systems like they were able to using SCO >> and >> > the lprint command. That command redirected the print back to their >> > terminal, and printed it on their local printer. >> [snip] >> >> Are you using SSH? >> >> Using ssh Port Forwarding to Print at Remote Locations >> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5462 > > Actually with LPRng (client) - you don't need complicated setup for > remote printing. (with remote lpd) > > lpr -Pprinter@machine%port > > And I use this over ssh port-forwarding (to getthrough firewalls) to > print to a remote printer. > > ssh work-box -L10515:printer-box:515 > lpr -Pprinter@localhost%10515 > > So assuming the Regional guys are connecting from a unix/linux box > with lpd - this could easiy be setup. Perhpas not exactly the same > thing as lprint (described above).. > > Satish > > Unfortunately, they are not. They are using a Windows box and a Terminal Client. Thanks for your advice, however!
