Re: Printing thru terminal servers to a Mac X computer

From: William Smith (mecklists_at_REMOVETHIS.mn.rr.com)
Date: 08/21/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:19:44 -0500

In article <4125F79D.60908@ece.cmu.edu>,
 Chris Inacio <inacio+msnews@ece.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Since the Mac is unix underneath, (I'm a relatively new Mac user, so be
> kind if I'll totally off-base....) can't you create a virtual printer
> queue using Ghostscript that processes the Postscript into the native
> printer's format and sends it to the actual printer, deskjet in this
> case. It's done on Linux, FreeBSD, etc. all the time. And Ghostscript
> is free.

I won't say this idea won't work but it's not practical for this
scenario.

The user is at home and accessing the TS at the office. RDC will share a
Postscript printer but since the attached printer is a Deskjet, it's
never getting shared by RDC in the first place.

This means the Mac OS would have to be sharing the printer over the
Internet or dial-up connection and the TS would have to be configured
ahead of time with a print queue specifically for this user's IP address
and printer. And we're not even talking about having to forward ports or
consider firewalls and routers yet.

bill 

-- 
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP)

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