Tom Suzda wrote:
> Well, at least to me.
>
> The wife comes home last weekend with a bag full of work. Her boss told
> her she could work OT over the weekend. They gave her the web site
> address of the Citrix server, and she told them I would be able to take
> care of anything else she needed at home.
>
> Since I don't have a windows box here, except for a second boot option
> on a new laptop that I just purchased, I downloaded a Citrix client for
> linux. No problem with the install, and she was able to work fine.
>
> The problem came up when she needed to print locally. We logged a
> service ticket with her IT group, who responded to her fairly quickly,
> with the answer, "We don't support linux." I responded back to them,
> that I didn't want them to support linux, I'd take care of that, just
> tell me what they were doing about printing. It turns out that her
> company decided against the Citrix printing environment, and went with
> triCerat Simplify Printing package called Screwdrivers. Unfortunately,
> right now, it's only for windows.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions on how to get around this issue
> without loading windows, or doing what she has been doing, which is
> mailing each of the documents back to herself at home, and then opening
> them here under linux and printing them?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom
>
>
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The first question is what version of Citrix? I use Presentation Server
3.0 here, and printing works just fine to Linux. it uses the Citrix GPD
(Generic Print Driver). I'm also using the Citrix client for Linux and
it works very well... Also, the drive mapping works if you set it up
properly.
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