RE: Printing to WTK from Linux over ssh tunnel

Norman,

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Thanks!

Joe

At 04:48 PM 2/8/2005, you wrote:
>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.
>
>-----
>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.
>Phone: 215.822.5519 Fax: 215.822.5523
>
>NEWZware is a product of ICANON Inc. - Visit our web site at
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Joe Lewinski
ICANON Associates, Inc.
Phone: 215.822.5519 Fax: 215.822.5523

NEWZware is a product of ICANON Inc. - Visit our web site at
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suite of products and services.