[THIN] Re: USB-IT feedback
- From: "Rob Slayden" <rslayden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:31:28 -0700
Thanks Rick.I appreciate the info. I downloaded the USB-IT demo from the
website and I hope to begin some testing next week. I am building out
some servers today to do testing for this project and another one as
well. I was surprised that I did not hear from them after giving them my
contact information in order to get the product download. Usually when
you do that, someone calls or emails you within a few minutes <g>. I
would like to speak with someone from their organization to determine if
I should even be testing their product.
The way this USB device works is to create a virtual com port and then
it uses a dll to to bridge the communications between the virtual port
and the physical port and the java app to push the data up to the web.
Maybe Peter will shoot me an email and I can discuss this with him.
Thanks again for your help!!
rob
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Rick Mack
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 5:57 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [THIN] Re: USB-IT feedback
Hi,
SInce the devices are detected, it's technically possible.
The issue with the normal client drive redirection behaviour is that the
client drive has to be present when the session is initialized and
nothing that changes after that point will work. It's possible there are
a couple of work-arounds but I really haven't looked at the issue very
much.
Back to USB-IT though, handling USB memory devices at the server level
makes a huge amount of sense if you want to control what devices are
being used and what they are used for....
I'll send Peter Ghostine an email ;-)
regards,
Rick
Ulrich Mack
Volante Systems
Level 2, 30 Little Cribb Street
Coronation Drive Office Park
Milton Qld 4064
tel: +61 7 32431847
fax: +61 7 32431992
rick.mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of M
Sent: Thu 20/04/2006 17:48
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: USB-IT feedback
Sorry to jump in Rick,
They (Provision) wouldnt happen to support users inserting USB keys /
Devices after the Citrix session has started would they ?
Im trying to find a solution that supports this on Citrix
Any ideas ?
----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Mack <mailto:Rick.Mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 10:39 PM
Subject: RE: [THIN] USB-IT feedback
Hi Rob,
Provision enabled USB support by redirecting client USB through
an ICA/RDP virtual channel, and then using a virtual USB hub on the
server end. Any client-side USB device is visible to the server.
But this will only work if you have appropriate server-side
drivers to support non-PDA devices. At the moment USB-IT supports palm
and blackberry with full ActiveSync support for all versions due in the
next few weeks.
I suspect that if you were to contact Provision, and your need
was finiacially viable for them, it wouldn't take a lot of effort to
support the BodyBugg.
regards,
Rick
Ulrich Mack
Volante Systems
Level 2, 30 Little Cribb Street
Coronation Drive Office Park
Milton Qld 4064
tel: +61 7 32431847
fax: +61 7 32431992
rick.mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Rob Slayden
Sent: Thu 20/04/2006 14:14
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] USB-IT feedback
Happy Thursday to all!
I am looking for feedback on the Provision Networks USB-IT
product. Has anyone used it? Does it work well? Has anyone used it for
bi-directional communication to USB devices other than handhelds? The
reason I ask is we are trying to develop a solution to implement a
device at our fitness clubs that requires 2-way communication between a
USB device and a website to upload data from the device. It's called
BodyBugg and it tracks a user's caloric expenditure which they then
upload to the website via USB cable connected to this device. I want the
ability to deploy device communication to each of our fitness clubs over
our existing Citrix MetaFrame XPe 1.0 FR3/SP4 infrastructure using our
existing Wyse Winterm CE-based terminals. My alternative will be to
deploy an embedded XP terminal after loading software on it to support
the device communication, but I really don't want to push out yet
another "one-off" to support this product. I know this is probably not
enough information for anyone to make any serious recommendations, but
if anyone knows about any products that will enable 2-way communication
between Citrix and/or Terminal Server and a USB device, I would love to
know about it.
Thanks!!
rob
24 Hour Fitness, Inc.
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