[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX 0.6.0 released

[Fabian Franz]

> On Tuesday 23 January 2007 03:52, Fabian Franz wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > yes, there is a new release.
> Excellent! Many thanks.
> [snip]

Your welcome.

> > 23.01.2007 FreeNX 0.6.0 "Juliana birthday edition"
> [snip]
> >         * Fixed cups printing (added username and password).
> Is this tested, and if so with which CUPS version? 

No, this is not tested. This was just tested when te commit was made.

>IIRC for CUPS 1.1 you
> need 
> to change from 'localhost' to the server's IP or name (so long as it
> doesn't 
> locally resolve to localhost). If you don't then CUPS tries to
> authenticate 
> with a local token, and fails because it isn't really local. 

I always had cups running as ServerName localhost. I guess that is why it did work.

>CUPS 1.2
> doesn't 
> seem to like starting the usermode cupsd at all, which breaks the print
> model 
> in FreeNX.

Humm, okay.


> I've only had a quick look at the code so far, and spotted localhost was
> still 
> present, but may have missed an alternative fix.
> [snip]

sure.

> >
> > What is the biggest issue you currently have with only FreeNX?
> Can't print to CUPS 1.2 which is increasingly becoming standard on
> distros. To 
> be honest it's not too much of a problem for me or I would have put more 
> effort into fixing it. Still, it's a hole in the feature set. Other than
> that 
> 0.5.0 has been working beautifully.

Great!

cu

Fabian