tjandracom that is always going to hurt that way. Reason messages has to go to samba then into a cups interface then to printer. If it was a USB Printer port I could make it work threw Linux far more effective. http://usbip.sourceforge.net/ There is no printer port over IP I know of other than that. Yes that is direct printer port. I will be blunt. Linux is designed that raw device access is not normally provided over the network. Theory is that you would create a daemon/service to carry out that location where the device is. Really please exam your path. 15 - 20 second speed hit is being caused by abusing the Linux stacks. If it was a normal serial port it would not be hard either servers to deal with that problem exist. http://www.jfc.org.uk/software/conc.html . You seam to be coding the program to do this job. Why cannot a remote service be used to control the printer port directly.
