What thin client software are you using? The ability to connect to physical devices on the terminal is constrained by the communication protocol in use. The main ones are X, Citrix ICA, MS RDP, Tarantella AIP, & Graphon.
The Java virtual engine will also play a significant role as it may not be able to talk outside the java sandbox to some kinds of physical devices. It took Citrix years to solve this problem so it may be a non-trivial exercise. Phil Perry PS It might be worth talking to tech support at the companies listed above as they have white papers on their approach to this kind of issue. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aswartha Narayana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:06 PM Subject: [Muscle] PCsc Resource Manager SCardEstablishContext(SCARD_SCOPE_GLOBAL, ip .. > Dear All, > I have a requirement where there will be terminals (thin clients) that > will be connected to a terminal server. The terminals connect to the > terminal server using XServer. All the processes that need to be > executed on the terminal gets executed on the terminal server it self. > > One of the application , a java applet that is embedded in a webpage > should talk to the smartcard reader connected to the terminal. When i > try to connect the reader thru my applet the application is searching > for a smartcard on the server and not on the terminal. > > We are using the pcsc-lite 1.0.1 that is downloaded from this site. We > want to modify our application such that it establishes a connection > with the terminal's pc/sc manager and not the server's. > > My basic doubt is " > Can this be possible with pcsc-lite 1.0.1? Or should i download the > new 1.1.1 rpm (Redhat) and install? > Is it a must that the pcsc daemons run on both terminal aswell as > server? > > We tried with two standalone systems with Redhat 8.0 with one system > having the smartcard reader connected and pc/sc daemon running. No card > reader is connected and no pc/sc daemon is runnig on the other system > I used the "formaticc.c" from your site for testing. > > One the system with smartcard reader and daemon connected and with > hostname it returned the reader name connected to that pc. Even when i > changed the host name to some other IP (of the second system) the > application returned the same reader name that is connected to the first > PC. > > When i ran the same application on the second pc without reader and pcsc > resource manager there was an error message saying that context could > not be established. > > Please let me know what i should do to over come the problem > > Appreciating your quick response at your earliest convenience. > > Thanks and regards > Aswarth > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Muscle mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.musclecard.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle _______________________________________________ Muscle mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.musclecard.com/mailman/listinfo/muscle
