One thing I've been longing for, is the possibility of scanning on the remote server using a scanner connected to the client. I noticed that 2X now supports this. Is it possible using x2go, or will it be possible in the future? Do you only implement stuff that can be done on all platforms, or will you make it possible using ubuntu clients even if it's not easily done for windows clients?
Thanks.
Jo-Erlend Schinstad
One thing I've been longing for, is the possibility of scanning on the remote server using a scanner connected to the client. I noticed that 2X now supports this. Is it possible using x2go, or will it be possible in the future? Do you only implement stuff that can be done on all platforms, or will you make it possible using ubuntu clients even if it's not easily done for windows clients? <snip> That's interesting. I would think to enable scanning from the physical desktop directly to the virtual desktop, i.e., from client to server, one would have to expose the server's file system to the client (as opposed to the current file sharing which exposes the client's file system to the server). That would have some very serious security issues I think. One of the advantages of X2Go we are selling to our clients is the isolation of the virtual desktop from the physical thus
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 15:42 +0200, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: providing a (imperfect but helpful) barrier to malware trying to jump from the less protected physical desktop to our highly secure virtual desktops.
The way we do this now is an awkward, two step process of creating a local share, scanning to that local share from the physical desktop, and then moving the file from the share on the virtual desktop to wherever we want it in the virtual desktop file system - John
Hi,
after a quick look in the saned documentation[1] i think setting up saned on the clients and usinging sane with the sane-net backend shouldn't be that hard (though it requires a trusted network environment because there is no authentication/authorization besides tcp wrapper support..). You may want to tweak the users environment to set SANE_NET_HOSTS to her/his client pc.
Including tunneling support over ssh in x2go for saned is probably a tricky thing since sane uses a different tcp connection or control and data plus it resolves the port exclusivly over services.
But saned on the clients should ease the process for your users.
/rupi
1: http://www.sane-project.org/docs.html
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