[FreeNX-kNX] Printer configuration missing screen

playerum controle.um at gmail.com
Sat Aug 21 15:25:54 UTC 2010


Tanks for the response.

I'll test other distros and then try to fix the Mandriva, our main distro.

If i make it work, i'll be back and explain how..

Tanks again!

2010/8/20  <chris at ccburton.com>:
>
> playerum <controle.um at gmail.com> wrote on 20/08/2010 13:44:02:
>
>> Hi, again.
>>
>> I read a lot of stuff about local printing, but i'm stucked.
>
> Printing to windows wasn't finished in FreeNX 0.7.3 and
> only works with some patching.
>
> Some distros have patched theirs but I'm not sure about
> madriva.
>
> You will need to get rid of
>
>         ENABLE_CUPS_SEAMLESS="1"
>         ( ="0" )
>
> first though, else you are trying to download a ppd file from
> windows.
>
> And you need
>
>         ENABLE_CUPS_SERVER_EXPORT="1"
>
> I think that's the default though.
>
>
> You are best installing the linux nxclient on your the server also,
> and making sure your nxdialog uses it all the time, even if
>         $DIALOG_TYPE = "printer"
> (about line 80)
>
> This should allow you to choose the .ppd for your printer,
> without wating 5 mins for the list to appear.
>
> Choose the .ppd, don't spool raw (postscript) . . .
>
>
> Check if a userland cupsd is starting for your nx session and
> check which cupsd your nx session thinks it should be
> spooling to.
>
> Check the
>
>         $CUPS_SERVER
>
> env var, to see if it points to
> ~/.nx/C-host-port-"session-id"/cups/cups.sock
>
> It doesn't get set properly without patching.
>
>
> You need to check /usr/lib{,64}/cups/backend/nxsmb
> to see if it is patched to change
>
> nxsmb:// to smb://  (line 43 or so)
>
> else smbspool won't understand it. . . .
>
> If you have lib64 libraries in nxsmb, make sure nxsmb can
> find
>
>         libnxredir.so.0
>
>  which may well be in lib
>
> etc
>
> etc
>
>
> I have users printing to XP, but my nxnode is pretty much
> rebuilt to get it going as I want ( no dialogs if the ppd is set up
> etc )
>
>> Maybe someone can help me.
>
> It's best to have a fully patched FreeNX, but hardly anyone seems
> to use smb spooling, so you are kind of on your own . . . .
>
>
>>
>> My system:
>> Mandriva 2010.1
>> FreeNX 0.7.3
>> NX Client 3.4.0-7
>>
>> I configured the Windows XP NX Client > Services -> Enable printer and
>> file sharing and choose my local printer.
>
> You will of course need a printer share available and set up
> in the nxclient with a valid login . . . OK you did that . . . .
>
> Let me know how you get on.
>
> I don't mind helping you to get it going (if I have the
> time free, of course)
>
>
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