[dundee] Scripting across logins

[Fionnbar Lenihan]

Hi

A sort of mixed linux Mac OS X question here.

When I recently upgraded from OS X 10.3 (Panther) to 10.4 (Tiger) my  
Samsung ML-4600 network printer ceased to work despite installing  
several drivers.  It's a network printer attached to a simple  
Mandrake File / Print server.

I work around it by printing to a Postscript file on a Samba share  
located on the  linux server few in my study.  I then SSH into the  
server and lpr the PS file

Works fine and I am pleased with myself though I have a feeling that  
I'm somehow re-inventing the wheel!

I wonder if I can automate this process a  bit?

Ideally I'd like to just print the PS file to a specific folder on  
the share and have it thrown at LPR on the server automagically.

On Mac OS X you could achieve this by attaching a folder action  
script to the folder which would be triggered by the creation of the  
PS file.

Alternatively is there some way of triggering the shell script on the  
server from a shell script on the OS X machine?

Is there some way of passing a password and the name of an executable  
along with the login name in the SSH command?

Alternatively I have heard about Expect

Is this hard to learn, I'm not a programmer but can cobble together a  
simple shell script

Cheers
Fionnbar