Fernando Ronci <fernandoronci@hotmail.com> wrote:

(stuff deleted, basically he's trying to use netcat to do lpr)

>I picked port 9100 because port 515 is already used to handle traffic
>from the system's network printer. Anyway, 'hhproxy' will map port
>9100 back to 515 when forwarding traffic to 'winlpd' on the 2nd remote

But what you are not understanding is that lpd is a fairly
complex protocol and netcat is NOT doing that.

See http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/netcatlpr.html for a better idea
of what you would need to do.

Better idea would be to put a printserver out there that you CAN
use netcat directly with.

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