On 2010-03-16 07:06, Mitchell Laks wrote: [snip]
i will look to see what comes up at work this morning and at Dad and Mom's tonight
Configure their firewall (open port 23 and, if the fw is an external device, forward the port to your Dad's PC) and then ssh into his box and configure his printer using lp* commands.
If you're feeling ambitious (and his broadband connection is fast enough), enable X Forwarding and have X Windows apps running on his machine display on your machine!
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