[THIN] Re: USB devices on Windows based clients

  • From: "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:13:43 -0700

What type of USB device are you attaching?

 

 

Steve Greenberg

Thin Client Computing

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of David Demers
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:36 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] USB devices on Windows based clients

 

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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