adding remote ssh printer as local printer
- by guest
I have SSH access to a remote host (FreeBSD) that has a printer set up.
I do not have root access on that host or any other special user rights.
Now I want to print directly from my laptop on that printer (Ubuntu 10.10).
The problem is that I don't know how to "import" or whatever the the printer, as it needs authetification from my user account (print quota limitations).
E-mailing me the files I want to print or scp them every time is a pain, ATM I pipe the PostScript output manually to a ssh command, but that's also a huge working overhead.
E.g. when I want to print a foo.pdf
pdftops '/path/to/foo.pdf' - | ssh user@remotehost 'lpr -P printername'
So, does anyone know of a smooth way to shorten this procedure? Ideally I would just want to use a printername instead of the whole ssh command
