On Friday 25 December 2009 14:17:41 [email protected] wrote: > I'm using ltsp for a little company, which have a point of sale. > The point of sale use a dedicated WindowsXP application, connected to > various devices (a special serial printer, a serial cash register, an usb > scan code device and a normal usb printer). All of this is setup on a > Windows PC. > > Currently, the user opened a Linux session on a Ltsp client, and then run > the point of sale application trough rdesktop (seamless rdp). > > Now, I would like to remove the Windows box, connect all the devices on > the thin-client and put the software on a virtualized WindowsXP. The user > will run its ordinary Linux session and still access the application > trough rdesktop in seamless mode. > That means that the application will be connected to its devices trough > RDP and trough LTSP. > > It looks feasible, except I'm not sure it is a good idea ;-). > Jetpipe seems not yet able to access serial devices (?) and I wonder if it > will be easier to access the devices trough rdesktop only: > 1. a script running on the thin client open a RDP connection to share the > devices > 2. the user log in to Linux and then launch a second RDP connection to run > the windows application. > > Any ideas ?
If you doit programatically it is quite easy C code. W Stevens Unix Network Programming shows exactly how. The code I did was for a contract and not GPL (so I may not share :-( ), but the TC's run serial EFTPOS pads over a network link without any glitch over the years. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
