William said:
I won't say this idea won't work but it's not practical for this
scenario.
The user is at home and accessing the TS at the office. RDC will share a
Postscript printer but since the attached printer is a Deskjet, it's
never getting shared by RDC in the first place.
This means the Mac OS would have to be sharing the printer over the
Internet or dial-up connection and the TS would have to be configured
ahead of time with a print queue specifically for this user's IP address
and printer. And we're not even talking about having to forward ports or
consider firewalls and routers yet.
bill
Not sure I understand why this would be so problematic. (I'm not
trying to be a jerk here, just trying to eliminate my ignorance....) If
he created a virtual printer on Mac OS using Ghostscript, it would
appear to his Mac as a Postscript printer. Wouldn't RDC just share that
automatically?
If that printer queue is configured to be a Postscript soft RIP for the
deskjet, then most of the heavy lifting will be done locally on his Mac.
The TS machine would still not need to know about the deskjet or the
deskjet driver.
I might try this sometime soon, myself, actually, but I'm busy working
on other things currently, and haven't needed to print over my RDC link
just yet. (If I do, in a pinch, I can switch to using my Windows
machine....) But, hopefully this shouldn't be too complicated.
chris