Hello


I am using ssh to login into our mail server then pine to check my mail. How do I print my email on the server to my local printer attached to my client machine?

does ssh have a "printer forward" option? like "-X" to forward X - or how is it done?
any way to map my local printer to the server so when i print email on the server it prints to my local printer?

Thanks for your time

What type of interface or protocols does the printer support (and are active)?

MY client machine:
ubuntu 7 and the printer is connect through usb

The "mail Server" redhat 3

I ssh to the server to run pine to check email. Now if I want to print some emails to my local printer, that is connect via usb to my client machine, how would i do? or is it possible?

when i ssh to the server do i need to pass any "keys" like "-X" so all printing jobs are re-routed to my local printer.

Thanks

How is your printer setup on the local machine ?
I know *what* you want to do.
Now you need to tell us *how* the system is currently configured.

There are so many ways this can be accomplished, I won't guess at which is correct for your situation. So help us narrow down the choices by describing how your LOCAL printer is configured to print.

Thanks for your reply. The printer was configured through the web cups interface and here is the printer.conf part for the hp lj6mp which the printer i have the question about:

<DefaultPrinter ljg>
Info HP LaserJet 6MP
Location Local Printer
DeviceURI hp:/par/HP_LaserJet_6MP?device=/dev/parport0
State Idle
StateTime 1207768352
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy retry-job
</Printer>

Description: HP LaserJet 6MP
Location: Local Printer
Printer Driver: HP LaserJet 6MP - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.0.1
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
Device URI: hp:/par/HP_LaserJet_6MP?device=/dev/parport0

Please let me know if I answered your question

again thanks for your help