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

[S. J. van Harmelen]

Hey guys,

I now its been over a year since you talked about this issue (see your
old post below), but did you ever picked this up?

I think this could be done and (for me at least) would be a great
feature.

I hope one of you guys can give me an update about this matter so I know
if this is ever going to work. If its nessesairy I can put in some time
myself, but I'm not a programmer (can do some programming do).

Regards,

Sander

========================Previous post (July 2005)=======================

>>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.

Excellent.

> 
> 
>>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 ...

Yeah, I have some projects I need to finish first (I work on this stuff 
at work, mostly).  After that, I'll hit NX again.

> 
>>>>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...

I don't, but I will sign up when life settles down a bit for me.  Mostly 
when my projects at work die down a bit and I can experiment with it. 
We use a lot of Open Source here, and my boss doesn't mind me working on it.

Thanks,

Raul