From: "Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen" <daniel@copyleft.no>
Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: How to print to printer machine running X server?
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:12:08 +0100 (CET)
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
> Is there a way to print to a printer on the machine where the X server
> runs?
> - I have CygWin + xfree86 on a Windows machine
> - On the Windows machine (which has printers connected), I start
> OpenOffice on a remote machine Linux box over ssh -X..
> How do I print from OpenOffice running on the remote Linux box to the
> printer on the Windows machine where the X server is running?
Printing isn't part of X, so there is no standard correct way of doing
this.
My setup:
The Windows computer has its printers shared, accesible to the GNU/Linux
(actually FreeBSD) machine.
The GNU/Linux machine runs CUPS, and uses the samba "transport" to print to
the Windows connected printers. They're named "printer1" and "printer2".
When I log in on the GNU/Linux box from the Windows machine with XDMCP, I
run a
script which uses "lpadmin -d" to select default output for the lpr
command.
The script looks up the printer from a table using my DISPLAY setting.
Not perfect, but transparent to end users.
-- Daniel