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Can you copy and paste text out of it? Can you drag & drop files into it? Can you print to a local printer from the remote session?

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Yes on copy and paste, though you have to use a text box in the browser window (a menu on the left side) to mess with the clipboard. It's not ideal, but it's possible.

I cannot remember drag & drop files off the top of my head, but I seem to think no.

Not sure about local printer.

Printing is enabled by they system generating PDFs that the browser automatically downloads. It actually works pretty slick.

File drag-and-drop can be set up via a couple of different mechanisms, and isn't easy to get going, but works fine once you have it going.

Can you control all of these things with permissioning via an auth server of some kind?

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