Local Printing (remote printing)

[Brian Truter]

>
>
> 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 at 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 at 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!