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
http://your-centos7-box:631
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.
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