[X2Go-User] [X2Go-Dev] Printing, x2go, Vservers

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 13:59 -0400, senrabdet at aol.com wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
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> 
> 3)  John's Response
> 
> "Does the CUPS server have rights to write to the client's spool
> directory? Good luck - John"
> 
> 
> Hi John - how are you?  Good question...spent some time trying to
> check by comparing server where we connect directly to the x2go server
> vs. x2go running on a Vserver guest including on both:
> /tmp/.x2go-user1/spool/C-user1-50-1347811312_stDGNOME_dp24 (see below)
> /var/spool/cups
> 
> Even if we (assuming no mistakes) make the permissions comparable on
> both the x2go to x2go server and the x2go to x2go server on Vserver
> guest on these folders, no joy.
> 
> This may be the right track, though....a couple of
> observations/questions:
> a)  On the box where we connect directly the x2go server (no vserver
> involved), in the .x2go folder for the user there is a healthy "spool"
> link - on the vserver example, this link exists but is broken (they
> both point at /tmp); Bertl at Vserver says this is OK.
> b)  When we try to print, on the working x2goclient to x2goserver
> (again, no vserver),
> the /tmp/.x2go-user1/spool/C-user1-50-1347811312_stDGNOME_dp24 folder
> gets created along with the pdf for the print job.  NOTE:  this does
> not happen on the x2go client to x2go server on Vserver guest.  I.e.,
> no comparable folder is created.  So this folder which we think gets
> generated on the fly, only gets generated on the x2go to x2go server
> (not the instance where we connect to the x2go server on the vserver
> guest).
> 
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If I recall correctly, the x2go printer driver transfers the file to the
X2Go Server via scp.  Can the CUPS server establish an scp session to
drop off the file? - John