RE: Printing to WTK from Linux over ssh tunnel

You can also use "slave" printing to achieve the same functionality without
having to worry about having to worry about some of the issues that may
arise using rcp (like firewall issues).  Slave printing sends the print data
through the same telnet or ssh session that your program is being executed
on.  If you are using an HP printer you can send PCL codes to your printer
to turn on certain features like printing in landscape, changing the number
of lines per page, duplexing, and other advanced features.  I have a couple
scripts available if you would like to try it out.

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Norman


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of McGrath, Colin
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [fourjs-users] Printing to WTK from Linux over ssh tunnel

I've taken a page from Four-J's User Guide, and made a shell script that is
called up when the user logs in with ssh.
:::setFGLSERVER:::
#!/usr/bin/ksh
# setFGLSERVER  CMcG  03/19/01   (4JS example)
# FGLSERVER passed from @FGL when VPN is used is wrong.  Get it from "who
-m"
export FGLSERVER=`who -m | cut -d'(' -f2 | cut -d')' -f1`:0

You can add a call to "setFGLSERVER" in the WTK target field, or if they use
PuTTY or something, add the call to their .profile

Note:  Big files can overwhelm the printer port, you can lose data, you
might try a Window's lpd service, like the freeware from 
http://www.kabelmax.de/winsoft.html
You can send the file to the lpd-win print spooler from the UNIX box with
rlpr

--
Colin

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Joe Lewinski
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [fourjs-users] Printing to WTK from Linux over ssh tunnel


Hello,

We are using 3.10.1i and traditionally have been able to perform
a remote copy to the local PCs printer port from Linux as in:

rcp file pc_ip_address:LPT1 and a file would print on the local PCs
parallel port.

Now that we are using a ssh tunnel started by the following DOS bat
file:

@echo off
rem Login to server and setup a tunnel
cd c:\fourjs\3_53_1a
C:\fourjs\3_53_1a\bin\startwtk.exe -w;
cd c:\etc
ssh -l  some_user  -C -R 6405:localhost:6405  66.202.6.91  "/bin/ksh -c 
'/app/bin/sshgui.sh 5'"

We get our GUI running, but cannot get the printing to work.   When
the sshgui.sh program runs (above), the FGLSERVER variable is
set to "localhost:5".    When we attempt to run an rcp from either
a sub-shell of the users login shell, or from a separate process group,
we cannot connect to the Windows 2000 PC client.

Any help or suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks!

Joe

Joe Lewinski
ICANON Associates, Inc.
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