Le vendredi 25 décembre 2009 09:12:35, james a écrit : > 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.
Interesting. I'm not a C programmer, i will try to do it with Perl or a Shell scripts. Thanks for the reference book anyway. You did it using rdesktop only or ltsp + rdp ? Xavier [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
