Linux Gods,

I have Redhat Enterprise Linux ES on my office machine and a Windows XP Professional box at home. I use SSH to connect to the Redhat box in my office from my PC at home (with the help of a dial-up connection). I use CUPS and Samba on the Linux machine and I've successfully configured the printers on my office LAN.

Now, I have two questions here...
1. How can I add a printer attached to my home computer to the Linux machine in my office.
2. I'd like to print a document on my Linux computer to the printer attached to my home computer via ssh (using pass through printing?? without ftping the document). How should I do that?

All inputs are greatly appreciated. Thanks much.

Andre.

I found the solution at http://www.anzio.com/support/whitepapers/printguide.htm

This solution works well for text files. But how do I print PDF files to a local printer?

The solution to print text files to a local printer is as follows...

1. Create a shell script containing the following three lines (using your editor of choice):
tput mc5
cat $*
tput mc4

2. Make that shell script executable. For instance, if this script is named "passprt", do
chmod +x passprt

3. If you have "root" permission, copy the shell script somewhere that everyone can access it, such as:
cp passprt /usr/bin

To use it, simply "pipe" your output to it. From a shell level, for instance, if you have a textfile named "somefile", you can do:
cat somefile | passprt