alternate solution for remote printing

[Jörn Reitwießner]

Hello,

i need to know an alternate solution for remote printing, because it is not possible to tunnel the "traditional" way with lpr with ssh. This is a mandatory condition because the print job have to go through a firewall. And the lpr-solution use on the client-side variable port-allocation. So it is not possible to tunnel lpr with ssh over port 22 through a firewall.

Does somebody know a alternate solution?

THX!

[Mark Grant · Accepted solution]

Have a look at "cups". I'm not sure it does exactly what you want but it is extremely comprehensive and very good too. Oh, and it's free.

http://www.cups.org

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

what about ftp?

greetings,

Michael

[Jörn Reitwießner]

We need to compress it. With rlp you can edit the interface-script of the specific printer in which you compress the file with gzip und unzip it in the other interface-script. I think with ftp this won´t work, o