Wednesday, February 11, 2009

[THIN] Re: USB devices on Windows based clients

Worth noting that Quest vWorkspace 6 updates USB-IT also supports TWAIN scanners, not just PDAs (Though of course that is relatively low-speed as well).

 

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To date the only company to support true isolated USB redirection on terminal services is Quest's provision Networks division (USB-IT). Trouble is >USB-IT was only aimed at specified relatively low speed PDA devices and not a lot else (though it was extensible). We're working on something >totally generic for USB-IT V2 but that's still a few months away before we've got something to show.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:16 AM, David Demers <David.Demers@sos.state.co.us> wrote:

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

 


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





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