[THIN] USB devices on Windows based clients

  • From: "David Demers" <David.Demers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:36:22 -0700

Hi guys,

I've been fighting with an issue with USB devices on my Windows XP
Embedded devices. The problem is (as I'm sure many of you have
experienced) that if a user plugs in a device after the ICA session has
begun, the session does not detect the device being added. When we used
Linux based thin clients this was not an issue, but it appears that the
windows based ICA client is unable to provide this feature.

We found a nifty little utility called DynamicUSB
(http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX112588) that sort of addresses
this issue, but the basic premise and the assorted workarounds to make
it palatable in our environment is frankly a bit cludgy. I was wondering
if others are experiencing similar issues and/or what other methods have
been employed to address this.

-David

P.S. Sorry if this is a double post... wasn't sure if the first one went
to the correct address

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