Re: pass through printing

[Michael Loßin <phallobst@xxxxxx>]

*Please* learn to quote...

On 05-Mar-02 John Fabiani wrote:
> Remember, what I'm attempting to do is pass-through printing.  This means 
> that I'm attempting to print on the users printer not the Unix server 
> printer.  The only connection I have to the user's printer is the telnet 
> connection.

So the only chance is to send the whole print job to the
user's lpd (doing nothing else on the server).
In this case you must be sure that every user has a
spooler daemon running, *and* that it accepts remote
print jobs, *and* there must be a known printer queue
name available (probably "lp"), *and* the port must be
open to use.

Whenever a user logs into the server, the environment
variable PRINTER could be set to the correct value
(maybe in .bashrc), using the remote host name/ip
(which should be available in $REMOTEHOST or in some
other variable).

        export PRINTER="lp@$REMOTEHOST"

Now when the user prints something, the printer spooler
at the user's host will be contacted and the job will
be sent to the queue named "lp".

As long as you have lpd running on both sides, you don't
even need an entry in the server's printcap.


HTH
Michael