filePro Printing over a Satellite

Walter Vaughan wvaughan at steelerubber.com
Wed Mar 10 07:25:34 PST 2004


I'm thinking about using direcTV's professional installation (with fixed
IP address) on our 40foot trailer that goes all over the US,
and process the orders directly on our servers here.
These are locations that don't have phone lines, and don't even
have digital cell service in some places.

I'm fairly confident that I can ssh or use the web okay, but printing
picking tickets and receipts might be my downfall.

I'm looking for naysayers why I couldn't print to a printer as follows:

Unix                                               Windows  HP Laser
Server - Internet - DirecTV - Dish - Modem - Hub - Laptop - Printer

I know I couldn't print directly via samba to the printer
since I'll have to use NAT on the other side of the modem in
order to share it (probably via a foolproof Linksys switch),
but I should be able to do some sort of local print with
Anzio or PuTTy methinks.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5462
kinda describes what I need to do, but is this the right direction?




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