Re: Telnet printing

From: Scott Burns (scott_at_mirrabooka.com)
Date: 01/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 01:02:53 GMT

Brian K. White wrote:

>"Robert Bachellor" <rob@alphaomegas.com> wrote in message news:<LNWdnfBPhsoFm4XdRVn-sA@thebiz.net>...
>
>
>>We have a remote client using DSL with dynamic IP addressing to telnet back
>>into the SCO OS5 server. He is using ICE.TCP Pro which comes with an LPD
>>program for Windows. My problem is how to define a printer on the server so
>>that his reports go to his LPD interface so he can print them.
>>
>>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Rob
>>
>>
>
>I would use passthru-printing before I got entangled in defining a
>bunch of lpd printers to non-static ip's. You don't have to configure
>
>
<SNIP>

>since the printer is created as a "local" printer to device /dev/null.
>This also keeps lpstat from hanging for long times trying to get the
>status of remote printers via lpd.
>
>
Bloody hell! I hope you cut and pasted that!

To bring it back ontopic, would SSH and Putty work better? SSH has the
port forwarding option. You could set it up so that anyone who
connected to port xyz on the SCO box was actually connecting over the
tunnel to the lpd server on the windows box. This also has the
advantage or getting rid of telnet and securing the original connection.
 It would require some scripting to handle disconnections (auto disable
the printer on logout?).

Would a VPN work better here? It may or may not require another box
(does SCO do PPTP? ). 

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Scott Burns
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