Printing

[James Weatherall]

Steve,

Why do you assume that the cross-platform nature of the standard VNC system
prevents us from adding new features?

Cheers,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com 
> [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On Behalf Of Steve Bostedor
> Sent: 08 August 2005 14:22
> To: John Aldrich; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Printing
> 
> Yes, I'm sure that you are correct.  I think that the RealVNC and
> probably the TightVNC developers are more concerned with 
> cross platform
> design than added functionality.  
> 
> The cross platform nature of VNC has always been one of its hallmarks.
> It's understandable why they would be reluctant to add new 
> features with
> this being the philosophy.
> 
> - Steve Bostedor
> http://www.vncscan.com
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Aldrich [mailto:JAldrich "at" covista.com] 
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 9:13 AM
> To: Steve Bostedor; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Printing
> 
> Steve, et al:
> I am just guessing here, but I think the reason that VNC 
> isn't including
> this sort of thing is because it would probably be hard to do
> cross-platform, especially when printing from a *nix machine which you
> are
> viewing from a Windows desktop. :-)
> 	John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com]On
> Behalf Of Steve Bostedor
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 8:30 AM
> To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
> Subject: RE: Printing
> [snip]
> If you're on a LAN, you can share your printer and then print 
> to it from
> the remote computer.  For example, if you have an HP LaserJet 1100 on
> your admin PC and you want to print to it from \\Computer1, just share
> your printer on the network.  
> 
> On the remote computer do a "net use \\admin\laserjet1100" where admin
> is your computer name and laserjet1100 is the assumed name of 
> the share.
> That is basically how Windows Terminal services pulls the trick off
> except that it encapsulates the traffic along with the screen 
> traffic.  
> 
> It would be nice if VNC had this same feature but it looks 
> like there is
> no real interest to include it.  Until then, you need to use 
> the tactic
> described above or the IP print server suggestion.
> 
> Steve Bostedor
> http://www.vncscan.com
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