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James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 2009/5/10 Paul Stimpson <paul@???>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm just about to try installing a virtualised server system (Linux host with multiple Windows XP guests). The reason for the change is that we currently have 10 windows desktops racked and we would like to consolidate them as they are taking up too much rackspace and power but not actually doing much work.
>>
>> I'm looking for decent (hopefully Linux-based) thin clients to access the Windows VMs. Desirable features (in no particular order) are:
>>
[snip]
>>
>
> All that seems pretty commodity. One can use WYSE thin clients. They
> support RDP out of the box.
> I think the problem would be the usb memory stick.
> RDP forwards keyboard, mouse and display, but I don't think it does
> usb memory stick switching during an RDP session.
>
The RDP protocol itself supports USB redirection. In fact, in Server
2008 they've extended the USB plug and play support so that you can use
a variety of USB devices via RDP. For example scanners, dictation
devices etc.
The limiting factor is going to be rdesktop, the Linux RDP client. IIRC,
this does not support "hot plugging" of USB devices (unlike the Windows
client). You have to specify where the USB device is before running
rdesktop. i.e. rdesktop -disk:/mnt/usb server.domain.tld
So this may be an issue for the OP. Some form of script could be written
to work out if a USB mass storage device is plugged in and then run
rdesktop with the appropriate -disk argument(s) but users would need to
end their current RDP session if they plugged a device in to see it.
Of course, things may have changed but it's something to consider.
Regards,
David.
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