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In this lesson, we're going to discuss some of the remote capabilities of Linux and of
Caldera itself. The first one we want to look at is what's
called a VNC or Virtual Network Computer. Now what this allows me to do is to look at
my remote Caldera computer locally from the Mac or Windows computer I'm sitting in front
of. Now, if we pan out, we'll see this is actually
viewed on my Windows 7 computer. What this is great for is if you have your
computer that you're designing in one area, and want to access your Caldera computer remotely
because it's in a different area. If you open up your web browser, you can type
in the IP Address of your Caldera computer and access what's known as the Caldera web
server. This has links to all documentation that they
have in PDF format. It has links to the VNC client that we've
been using to access our computer remotely, and it has links to upload to a Hotfolder
or just to the public folder of your Caldera computer.
Now, if we click on the HTTP link, it will open up a remote file dropbox.
We can choose a file by browsing our computer and finding a file, and then click the print
button which will upload it to our Caldera computer.
Now it takes a few moments to process, but once you upload it, it will come up right
to the computer and show up in your default tab of your default image browser window.
Once it has shown up there, you can click and drag it and print it just like any other
job. Another easier way to get files to your Caldera
computer from a remote computer is by using simple Windows file sharing.
By opening up your network browser, we can find our Caldera PC, and in there, there is
a public folder. Once you open up the public folder, you'll
find your hot folder. From there you can grab any file that you
may have on your local Windows computer and just click and drag over.
In a moment, you'll see them pop up in the default image browser.
Once the file has shown up just like before, we can just click and drag to print or throw
it in a compose. Speaking of remote file transfer, one of the
best uses for this is integrating hot folders into your workflow.
A hot folder is used to import a specific file, a specific way to reduce the amount
of work and printing time. You can set them up for any reason, but common
ones are used to separate files based on type or by job or customer.
We'll go ahead and create one using a two step process, with a third step just for the
specific process that we're doing. The first step that we need to do is to create
the actual physical folder that we're going to drop these into.
Now the easiest way to do that is to drop those in your public folder.
We're going to go to our home directory, go to public, and in there is where we're going
to create our new folder. Simply right click and hit create folder.
We're just going to give this a customer name. We're going to call it "johnDoe."
We're actually going to leave it all one word with no spaces just to make life easier.
Now that we've got our johnDoe folder, our second step is actually an optional step.
What we're going to do is create a separate tab in our image browser just for this job
for this customer. Right click anywhere in the window and hit
new tab. We'll call it "John Doe."
Once we've created the John Doe tab, now we can create a hot folder associated with that.
What we'll do is we'll go to our Special menu, we'll go to Hot Folders.
Now, up here, you'll see all of our existing hot folders.
We're going to click on the new button tab to add a new hot folder.
We're going to call this "John Doe." Workflow, we're going to set as "None" and
for Tab, we're going to put it on the "John Doe" tab.
Now the directory we're looking at is actually going to be the one we just created in the
Home file under public, JohnDoe. The reason we're using the public folder is
that it's already shared out across our network, we don't want to do any additional setup for
it. Now, once we've chosen that, we also have
this File Manager parameters that pops up the window for our File Manager.
Now, this looks pretty similar from the previous video we've done and you can set up settings
just like you've done there, so that every file that comes in this hot folder has a specific
setup. Once we're set with that, we'll click on the
OK button, and now we have our new John Doe hot folder.
We'll quit out of there, and we've set up everything.
To test out our file transfer, we're just going to do the same thing we did before by
opening up our Caldera drive, and then under public, our JohnDoe folder is there.
We can open it up, and then find all the files we need to drop it into there.
I have several files I'll copy into and we'll just copy them across our network to it.
Now that they've all transferred, we can close out our window and we can already see that
some of them have already been dropped into our John Doe tab.
Our first one should appear in just a moment. Now that all our files are located in our
drop box, we're ready to print them like any other job.
That's probably the best way to use these; however, you can always create workflows for
types of jobs whether they be specifically print and cut jobs or jobs that come in from
the Internet or any other type of job category that you want.
Using hot folders is a great way to organize your workflow.
Hope these tips have been helpful and we'll see you next time.