[FreeNX-kNX] NX->RDP printing questions.

[Raul Carolus]

> sorry for the late answer, but your thread was ordered completely wrong. (You 
> replied to a subject which had nothing todo with what you wanted to say)

I have a habit of replying to emails rather than starting a new one.  My 
bad.


> 
>>I've read some docs on how freenx handles printing to a kde desktop,
>>Does any one has any ideas how to extend this to a nx rdp session?
> 
> 
> Yes, you use the standard IPP_PORT=<port> rdesktop -r printer=myprinter 
> facilities, but you would need newer nx/rdesktop.
> 
> For now, I'd like you to try to login via NX and use the custom command to 
> directly start rdesktop. (See if its much slower than nxdesktop directly ...)
> 
> The idea behind this is, that if you can print from your KDE session, you can 
> also print from your rdesktop session directly with driver settings taken as 
> the KDE defaults ... 
> 
> You could even extend this to replace the lpr command in rdesktop with 
> kprinter so you would have a nice driver settings dialog for each printed 
> document _before_ printing it almost seamlessly to your local printer.
> 
> 
>>I have an idea, but I'd like to hear if anyone else has one.
> 
> 
> Could you at least present it? ;-) Other mights want to hear it too ...

Sure, I wanted to get some feedback first to see if I was on the right 
track.  I may be with your response above.

Let's see if I can remember it.  When connecting to a linux session from 
windows, samba is initiated to mount up the printers/shares when the 
session is started.  However, when selecting windows/rdp from the 
session type, the ability to select shares is disabled.  Looking in the 
code (nxnode, i think, it's been a while), it appears that when the RDP 
option is selected, it automatically starts nxdesktop for you.  What I 
was thinking was to enable the windows shares on the client, and have 
the login/session start code mount up the printers/shares before 
starting nxdesktop, and performing your above command to start the 
nxdesktop connection.

So it all happens seamlessly and transparent to the user.  Am I on the 
right track?

As a side note, I haven't been able to get my KDE session to print back 
to my windows machine.  I'm probably doing things wrong.

>>Is there an open source windows client for NX?
> 
> 
> Yes, nxrun on freenx.berlios.de is also avialable for Windows.
> 

That's the command line thinger right?  I have that and it works fine. 
I should have asked if there was one with a gui.  heh.  If not, I can 
probably add one when I get time.

Thanks,

Raul