Currently if someone wishes to print from an application running in a VNC
session, the printer must be visible to the computer running the VNC server
(and the server also probably needs to have a driver for that type of
printer). If the user is behind a firewall or does not want to make their
local printer visible to the entire net, then they are forced to print to a
file on the server, transfer that file to their local machine, and then
print it.
There is no simple way to set things up so that applications on the server
can print to a printer on the client computer. The folks at WorkSpot want
to change this, so I'm exploring extending the current VNC protocol to
support local, client-side printing: a printing request on the server-side
would be redirected to the Xvnc server, sent over to the client (vncviewer)
and printed on a printer connected to the client computer. Initially only
plain text & PostScript would be supported.
I welcome any comments about the issues involved in doing this or
suggestions on how to best proceed.
-- Ron --
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