Wez, It's not an assumption. I often see feature requests shot down on this list, and the most common reasons given relate to cross platform issues.
I'm not sure why this was addressed directly to me. John appeared to think so, also. I was simply agreeing with him. If you disagree, then please let us know why something like remote printing will never make its way into RealVNC so that we don't have to assume. Thank you, Steve Bostedor -----Original Message----- From: James Weatherall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 6:19 AM To: Steve Bostedor; 'John Aldrich'; vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: RE: Printing 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Bostedor > Sent: 08 August 2005 14:22 > To: John Aldrich; vnc-list@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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 9:13 AM > To: Steve Bostedor; vnc-list@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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Steve Bostedor > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 8:30 AM > To: vnc-list@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 > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > VNC-List@realvnc.com > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > VNC-List@realvnc.com > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
