LPR over SSH

[jmmckee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 I have seen examples of this with Linux.  I start thinking I see how to do this on te i.  But, someting is missing.

What I see:

On source computer, create a printer device.  Assign loopback address to the device, with a high port number. 
Start a qsh process which initiates a ssh process to listen to the loopback address and specified port.  Then forward that stream to a remote location.

Problems I see now:
1) the remote location will require username/password authentication.  So, an expect script is needed.  But, since that process will also spawn sftp, is that an issue?  Does the expect script need to do anythig more than just supply the username and password?  How does the data stream get to the ssh connection to the remote system?  Would a cat command work?

Is there a reference somewhere that might explain this?

John McKee