Printing in TS (was RE: Telnet with a Windows 2003 server)

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007, Bob Rasmussen wrote:
>First, thanks to Ken for pointing me in the right direction, indirectly. 
>It turns out that a variation of the FOR command can read output (stdout) 
>from a command-line program, and copy it into a variable, similar to the 
>Unix
>   var=`somecommand`
>
>To recap the problem I'm trying to solve: I want a program (such as 
>filePro) running on a Terminal Services server to print on a specific 
>printer attached to my client PC (running Remote Desktop Client). The 
>problem is that the visible name of the printer from the server's point of 
>view changes with the session number.

I do something similar with our auction systems running Linux where there's
a script that sets the LPDEST environment variable based on the IP address
of the connecting machine.  The Linux box that's running the main
application then directs jobs using that (and can map to different printers
using a simple ASCII file in case there's no printer on the remote or
there's a problem with it).

Bill
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