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

Raul Carolus rcarolus at lightyeardt.com
Wed Jun 15 16:48:21 UTC 2005


Greetings,

I have been playing with FreeNX using the Nomachine client for a while. 
    I'm investigating using it at work for remote desktop access. 
Unfortunately, our application is a Windows only app, so we have been 
running it on Windows TS's.

Using FreeNX to compress the RDP connections has been really nice.  It 
uses only about 10% the bandwidth of straight RDP.

I'd like to use FreeNX to do a windows->freenx windows desktop option -> 
Terminal Server. The big stumbling block here is getting printers to 
work in this situation.

windows -> freenx kde desktop printing works ok.   I'd like to see if I 
can get windows -> freenx windows RDP -> ts printing to work.

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?
I have an idea, but I'd like to hear if anyone else has one.

Two other things:

Is there an open source windows client for NX?

nxdesktop seems to have issues connecting to an RDP server with > 8 bit 
color.  rdesktop does not.  I looked at the nxdesktop code, and it looks 
like there's just additional code for the nx stuff put into rdesktop, 
does the code need to be updated?

Thanks,

-- 
Raul Carolus



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