server
By Steve Blass
Our 2003 Windows terminal client server can connect with any
Windows client via the Internet - it provides connection, sound
and printing services back to the client. We have a Linux client
that we can connect to the server and do everything except
print. Any help?
Printer redirection through remote desktop is a feature of
Version 5 of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The Unix
rdesktop client distribution release package (rdesktop 1.3.1)
supports only Version 4 of RDP, so you would need to set up your
local Linux printer as a network printer on your terminal server
to print to it.
The good news is the development version of rdesktop, available
through the Concurrent Versions Systems (CVS) repository on
SourceForge, does support Version 5, including printer
redirection (instructions are at the
After downloading the source with CVS you can build rdesktop
with the standard GNU build command sequence 'configure'
followed by 'make' and then 'make install.'
If you aren't familiar with building from CVS, rdesktop is a
straightforward project to get started with.
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