[FreeNX-kNX] NEWS: Developer-Update: 0.5.0 will use SVN

[Fabian Franz]

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Hi,

just a small development update:

FreeNX 0.5.0 will be available just through SVN.
The "stable" 0.4.x tree will be kept in CVS though.

0.5.0 changes:

- - I commited the Load Balancing support, if you can please test it in a "real" 
world example.

nx-utils changes:

* There is a new tree in SVN called nx-utils where certain utilities and 
patches will be collected.

* Added nxfish

	- nxfish uses a secure (tm) FiSH-Server to share certain files from the 
          local harddisk. (Portforwarded via SSH/nxproxy/SOCKS)

	- nxfish provides also the necessary patches against the KIO_FISH kioslave 
          in KDE 3.4.

* Added nxredir

	- nxredir is useful to have seamless UNIX->UNIX printing _now_ and not just 
          after 0.5.0 is released.

	 nxredir basically are 64 lines of C code (with 15 lines of #includes), which
         can redirect ports 631 and 139/445 to CUPS / SAMBA servers.

	It does this based on environment variables.

	to use this functionality now add the following to your .bashrc: (Or anything 
else sourced at session startup)

	export NXCUPS_PORT=8631
	export NXSAMBA_PORT=$[$(echo $DISPLAY | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d. -f1)+7000]
	export LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/libnxredir.so.0 $LD_PRELOAD"

	Then forward your CUPS port via SSH (for example) (but just if its a trusted 
server or your CUPSD is secured).

	Possibilities this gives you for example:

	- Open up a konqueror and go to: smb:/localhost/ to see and browse all your 
shares comfortably.

	- Just use kprinter and all your printers work.

	- Preloading this library should not hurt in any case.

	I would be especially interested in feedback if this works also on FreeBSD or 
Solaris.

So far from the FreeNX Development department.

cu

Fabian
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