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Oleg___Sayakov_
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Sep 21, 2009

Printing using Virtual Channels through FirePass

Hey FirePass users,     We are trying to get Screwdrivers RDP printing product from TriCerat http://www.tricerat.com/screwdrivers to work with the FirePass. Unfortunately Screwdrivers, li...
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Oleg___Sayakov_
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Sep 24, 2009
Kevin,

 

 

Thanks for looking into it. Yes, in order to pass that dll SSL device need to support RDP Virtual Channels for third party communications to flow with your RDP session. FirePass and its ActiveX and Java based RDP clients do not offer that option.

 

 

It works if you create a tunnel over 3389 and use a local native RDP client. But that option is not desirable for us since the users have to authenticate twice. The best scenario would be to have an ActiveX RDP client that supports 3rd party dlls over virtual channels.

 

 

You mentioned that you offer RDP printing with FirePass print redirection. How do you manage print drivers? Doesn't it require having matching drivers on the client and remote XP that users connect to? Do you have one to one mapping per user or do you have a pool of remote XP resources with all the known drivers?

 

 

Thank you, Oleg.