[THIN] Re: USB devices on Windows based clients

Sorry, specifically we are mostly dealing with USB portable drives.

 

From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Steve Greenberg
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 3:14 PM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: USB devices on Windows based clients

 

What type of USB device are you attaching?

 

 

Steve Greenberg

Thin Client Computing

34522 N. Scottsdale Rd D8453

Scottsdale, AZ 85266

(602) 432-8649

www.thinclient.net

steveg@thinclient.net

 

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From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of David Demers
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:36 PM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] USB devices on Windows based clients

 

Hi guys,

I’ve been fighting with an issue with USB devices on my Windows XP Embedded devices. The problem is (as I’m sure many of you have experienced) that if a user plugs in a device after the ICA session has begun, the session does not detect the device being added. When we used Linux based thin clients this was not an issue, but it appears that the windows based ICA client is unable to provide this feature.

We found a nifty little utility called DynamicUSB (http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX112588) that sort of addresses this issue, but the basic premise and the assorted workarounds to make it palatable in our environment is frankly a bit cludgy. I was wondering if others are experiencing similar issues and/or what other methods have been employed to address this.

-David

P.S. Sorry if this is a double post… wasn’t sure if the first one went to the correct address