[FreeNX-kNX] NX printing through port 445

Fabian Franz FabianFranz at gmx.de
Wed Dec 5 00:57:50 UTC 2007


> Hello All,
> 
> I am trying to print from the NX server session to a Windows client  
> printer through port 445 (as that is the only port open, as Netbios  
> over TCP/IP is disabled on the Windows client). Is this doable?

Yes, but you have to recompile smbprint from samba and change in libsmb == 445 to != 139.

Or you can use and compile nxprint from !M sources or from !M free forever edition and use a URI as nx://user@host:port/cifs/printer/.

> If it is, how should the DEVICE_URI be specified so it uses the  
> forwarded port? The server cannot talk to the client PC directly as  
> they are on different ends of a firewall. Only option is the SSH  
> tunnel that NX is using.

cu

Fabian



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