On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:03:31 ltsp-discuss- [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 ?
My only RDP TCs are handheld tablet order taker machines, but except I know *nothing* about programming on windows there should be no issues at all and this should be easy to achive. I'd try windows apps to do network sharing first the impliment whatever worked. QT makes this area easy to do and to share Win/linux/Mac. ie the handheld tablets do not have EFT pinpads, but it is looming as a need. 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
