SSH forwarding of X question

[Brian Fahrlander]

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Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Brian Fahrlander wrote:

>>> Any explanation?
>>    The machine you're on is the print-system's default location?
> 
> The machine I'm on and the machine I'm ssh'ing into are in two totally 
> separate networks.  The other side is actually going from this internal 
> network into the Internet and then to a soho-router with portforwarding 
> to an internal system.
> 
>>    Here I have 5 machines, the one main machine (without a head) has all
>> the services, and sits next to a printer.  When I run things on other
>> workstations, it uses the  _remote_ system's default printer...which is
>> the same for every workstation.
> 
> Don't know...both "superman" and "spiderman" are plain old' Ubuntu 
> workstations.  No designation of a print server.  The printers set up on 
> Superman are TCP/IP printers and the remote system also has TCP/IP 
> printers, but they're two different printers.

    This seems more a Firefox issue than anything else.  I've not had
the printing system to 'break' in many years, so I've not had to deal
with it for several years (about 6-7 actually).

    There will be printers defined in Firefox; I remember having to set
one up, here. It's possible that the program knows where the I/O is
coming from, and using your local printer as a 'feature', but that
doesn't sound like it's one to you.

    Can you use this remotely, set up a printer that's on the remote
site and print to it, then?  There's a bit of 'automagic' that goes on
with Firefox; normally it's a good thing.  :)

    What's the underlying print mechanism here, cups?  Are you able to
print to a remote printer on both sides?  I get the feeling that'd be
important for you.

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 Brian Fahrländer                 Christian, Conservative, and Technomad
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