On 05/20/2016 11:11 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Rick Stevens wrote:
On 05/20/2016 10:35 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I want to access System Settings=>Printers on my CentOS-7 server from my Fedora-24beta laptop. Is that possible?
If you set up the CentOS 7 box with a shared display accessible by TigerVNC or Remmina or RDP or some other remote display mechanism.
Thanks for your response.
But do I really need to install software of this kind to see System Settings? I was hoping I could use ssh in some way. Eg I can ssh into the CentOS box and run firefox or kmail.
If you're talking about remote viewing of a desktop, yes you have to install that stuff, and looking at "System Settings" assumes the desktop. If you're talking about a simple X client, yes, you can use "ssh -X" to do X forwarding of the client's output to your local display.
You could just add the vnc module to your X display on the server and use remmina or tigerVNC viewer to look at it. Add a file, "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-libvnc.conf" to your server containing these lines:
Section "Module" Load "vnc" EndSection
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" DefaultDepth 16 Option "SecurityTypes" "VncAuth" Option "PasswordFile" "/root/.vnc/passwd" EndSection
Save it and then run "vncpasswd" as the root user to establish a password needed to access the remote display. Restart X on the server.
On your local machine, use a VNC client to access the server's port 5900. When prompted for a password, put in the password when you ran "vncpasswd" and you should see the server's desktop on your local display.
I've done this before and it works. I haven't done it in a while as I've been using TeamViewer and TeamViewer's server and the VNC module don't like each other--use one or the other.
You might try accessing the CUPS daemon via
Not quite the same, but you can see what the print subsystem is doing.
I have been doing that. But as far as I can see, CUPS does not offer any way of seeing toner level.
No, it doesn't. CUPS manages the spooling and job system, not the printer driver innards. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, - - in five years there'd be a shortage of sand. - - -- Milton Friedman - ----------------------------------------------------------------------