Re: Redirecting data sent to a local printer to another host and port on the network

From: Fernando Ronci (fernandoronci_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/26/04 

Date: 25 Jan 2004 19:21:38 -0800

Tony Lawrence <apl@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message news:<bv1c8k$a7d$1@pcls4.std.com>...
> Fernando Ronci <fernandoronci@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> (stuff deleted, basically he's trying to use netcat to do lpr)
>
> >I picked port 9100 because port 515 is already used to handle traffic
> >from the system's network printer. Anyway, 'hhproxy' will map port
> >9100 back to 515 when forwarding traffic to 'winlpd' on the 2nd remote
>
> But what you are not understanding is that lpd is a fairly
> complex protocol and netcat is NOT doing that.
>
> See http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/netcatlpr.html for a better idea
> of what you would need to do.
>
Does this mean that the script at the above URL has to be called by
the printer interface script ?

Thank you,
Fernando

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