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