printers

[Glenn Mabbutt]

Complete untested speculation on my part:

If you are using VNC + encrypted tunnelling program (SSH or Zebedee come to
mind) you may be able to also map tcp/udp ports 135 - 139 (ports used for
RPC and netbios on Windows) on the remote machine (assuming the remote
machine is running Windows).  Thus, in theory it may be possible to map over
from the remote machine to the local machine (ie, from a command prompt "net
use \\localhost\sharename" on the remote machine while your tunnel session
is up).

To add this functionality to the server code itself is beyond my present
programming abilities....

Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: lonnie "at" outstep.com [mailto:lonnie "at" outstep.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 8:23 AM
To: vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
Subject: RE: printers


Hello All,

This is a question that I too have been very interested in for some time now
and
was wondering if any of the VNC experts out there might want to speculate on
what would be required in order to implement the printer and drive mappings
routines?

Cheers,
Lonnie

Quoting Glenn Mabbutt <gmabbutt "at" quartetservice.com>:

> you can't at the moment.  VNC gives you the DISPLAY of the remote
> machine,
> and in Windows offers limited clipboard-sharing capabilities, but not
> remote
> printer or drive mappings.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Girten [mailto:jgirten2 "at" home.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 7:37 PM
> To: vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
> Subject: printers
> 
> 
> I'm using vnc and if I want to print out something from the program I am
> in
> it only gives me the option for my work printers how do I print to my
> home
> printer?
> 
> Jamie
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