Morning all, I'm looking for a way to access my Dad's Mac office LAN from my home Linux machines. Situation is, Dad sends me some audio files to transcribe as letters via email, I type them up in OpenOffice and send them back via email to be printed. I'm looking for a way to have the lettters I type up printed on the printer that's attached to Dad's LAN without the clumsy step of sending them back as email. Note that presently both ends are on dialup, and there are only Macs (pre OS X) at Dad's end, and only Linux machines at mine.
Ideally, I'm looking for a Linux client that can connect to a Mac running Apple Remote Access, and then be able to upload files, print them and so on. Something like Samba for the Mac, perhaps. Can't seem to find such a beast after googling and searching Freshmeat etc. Or, would it be better to set up a VPN? Or an email address at Dad's office that prints everything sent to it? Or something else? My own instinct is to insert a Linux box into Dad's Mac LAN, on an ADSL connection, allowing only ssh, scp, from the net, acting also as a print server for both the LAN and incoming ssh connections. Such that I could 'scp file.doc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/tom', then 'ssh dads.work.com' 'lpr file.doc'. Or something along those lines. I don't really feel a need to open up Dad's printer to anybody who happens upon it while port scanning. Any thoughts welcome. Tom -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
