[FreeNX-kNX] Initial printing support added in CVS, FreeNX-0.4.0-pre1

[terander at guard.zapto.org]

On Saturday 30 April 2005 18:38, Fabian Franz wrote:

> I just finished the printing support in CVS. After a long time of work in
> total for this topic, its finally finished.
Great job, Fabian!

> Printing is only supported with Samba at the moment. CUPS support is there,
> but not tested very much.
>
> I uploaded a snapshot as FreeNX-0.4.0-pre1 on debian.tu-bs.de:
>
> http://debian.tu-bs.de/knoppix/nx/snapshots/freenx-0.4.0-pre1.tar.gz
>
> If you want to see actually working print support in 0.4.x, please test it
> now.

I've updatet to the CVS version on 01.05.2005, but I'm having some problems 
getting the printing to work (Actually, I'm having no success at all :-)).

The client is NoMachine version 1.4.0.92 and I use the GPL libraries 
(1.4.0-m1-1) on Debian Sarge with the CVS version of FreeNX (1.4.0-04-CVS).

Is there something magical I have to do to get it to work? I've shared my 
printer (and a file-share) on my local machine (winXP) and when I connect to 
the NX-server it takes a long time to connect (4 times the time when no 
services enabled in the NX-client) - about 40 secs. Then what should I do 
next? 

Another thing that recently has changed is the Gnome-support. I've read that 
the printing support is for KDE at the present, but I tried to connect to 
Gnome with SMB printer and fileshare enabled in the client. The result is 
that the client connects, authenticates, the the local x-server starts with 
the !M-logo, and after about 1 sec it disappears. Then the NX-client does 
either silently close, or it gives me this error message: ' WARNING! Not 
using shared memory support in X server for
FD#4.'

If I uncheck the support pirnter and file shareing (SMB), I can connect as 
normal to a Gnome session. I'm not sure when this started to fail, because I 
normally use KDE, but this used to work just fine (even though the SMB 
shares/printers wasn't available on the NX-server.

Since none have reported this, I think it's me that hasn't done my "homework" 
on the issue, but do have any tips for me?

I've made a simple flash-capture of this available here: 
http://guard.zapto.org/nx-gnome.htm

PS! Fabian, if time permits, and you want to, you can  check it out yourself 
using your own account on the server.

/Terje