Re: SMB : TCP/445 impossible to sniff a document sent to be printed to a MS Spooler Server

> In some case (with SMBspy, you can obtain a data file, which contain a
> PCL format  file, but impossible to use it.

First off, that's all that the PC is going to send to the printer, unless you 
have a laser printer that's only configured to accept PostScript, and it's 
better than the proprietary binary formats used by a lot of low-end ink jets.

Now then, I wouldn't say it's impossible to use it. I would imagine that 
there have got to be tools to display PCL. Even barring that, you can still 
send it directly to the printer; for instance, on Linux, I would create a new 
print spool that sent whatever it received directly to the printer, without 
any intermediate filtering. Alternatively, if you have the printer plugged 
into the parallel port on the Linux box, you could just `cat file.pcl > 
/dev/lpt0` or the like.

Hope this helps,
Terry

#include <stddisclaim.h>