wine users - Sep 2008 - print directly on another computer's LPT

how do i print directly to another computer's LPT port?
printing via GDI is no problem.

i have application that must print directly to LPT ports
on several computers. on local printer, there's no problem,
but i can't access LPT port on another computer.

in windows, i could simply map it to LPT2, and use the LPT2
   "net use LPT2: \\servername\printername"

or in my application i could open the network name directly:
   handle = fopen("\\servername\printername");
   fwrite( handle, buffer, buffersize );
   fclose( handle ); 

is it possibly to do that under wine? 
or similiar solution to do that?

tjandracom wrote:
> in windows, i could simply map it to LPT2, and use the LPT2
>    "net use LPT2: \\servername\printername"
> 
> or in my application i could open the network name directly:
>    handle = fopen("\\servername\printername");
>    fwrite( handle, buffer, buffersize );
>    fclose( handle ); 
> 
> is it possibly to do that under wine? 
> or similiar solution to do that?

No this won't work on Wine.

LPR on most Linux systems go to cups Gert van deb Berg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Printer_Daemon_protocol

They are not independent.  Cups set right for dot-matrix works fine.  Really
using raw mode has to be though about why.   Since raw mode is printer dependant
and kinda heavy.   Lots of cases after looking at the text driver options its
not required.

oiaohm wrote:
> Really using raw mode has to be though about why. Since raw mode is printer
dependant and kinda heavy

in most circumstances i would agree with that. but there are situation that i
really need to print raw mode.

my reasons:
1. if used locally, raw mode is very light, because no processing is required.
data sent to printer is only as much as the character count plus the escape
codes. if it is graphically printing, then the data sent to printer is all the
dot resolution.
2. ESC/P escape codes for dot matrix printer is quite a standard in the old
world (DOS/Netware/Windows) and there are printers that only understand this
escape codes as the formatting codes, such as small printer that is usually seen
in cash register, etc.
3. the result of driver translated fonts is mostly not as crisp clear as the
built-in printer fonts, especially if using several layer of carbonized paper.
4. draft mode printing in raw mode is extremely fast compared to draft mode
printing using the driver.


oiaohm wrote:
> To using internal fonts in most dot matrix printers is just using the right
mode and assigning the correct font names. Ie fonts that exist internally in
printer.

Yes, i am able to print using text-mode print locally. it is behave as expected.
light and fast. the problem is to print on another computer's printer. with
samba, i get 15 - 20 seconds hit, but it works. without samba, i don't know
how to access other computer's printer.
how to use the lpr command from inside windows application?