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

[Fabian Franz]

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Am Montag, 11. Juli 2005 18:38 schrieb 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.

No problem, just wanted to hint you on it.

>
> >>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?

Yep, thats exactly my idea too.

>
> 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.

Hm, too bad. Well it'll get easier with 0.5.0 ...
>
> >>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.

:-))

If you have an account at berlios, you could also directly be involved into 
the project...

cu

Fabian
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