-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 james wrote: > 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
Just a quick note: - rdesktop support multiple serial redirections over RDP - It also supports parallel port redirection (including usblp if needed) - Jetpipe supports serial printers since a while now I must admit I haven't used any of that yet but I heard that it should work just fine (I guess Gadi's using it ?). Hope it helps - -- Stéphane Graber Ubuntu developer http://www.ubuntu.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAks5lNsACgkQjxyfqkjBhuzmnACgiH+NLTojg/k2wE1dRHlz3nRQ /9cAniZJc0oZCOj3LQthLIekOJoISBft =Dgok -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
