Serial Port Device

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Hello,
We are investigating deploying an application over terminal services to address some internal banwidth issues. The application we are using includes the ability to upload files from a percon badge scanner. In client server mode we place two files in the applications folder and they handle the connectivity to the serial port. If I was to place those same files up on a Windows 2000 server, would it see the com port?

Essentially I guess the question is, can a terminal session recognize local serial ports?
If so is there any special configuration we have to do?
And last but not least if we can do this, is 10 concurrent users feasible on a 2 proc 2.5 ghz machine with 2 gb ram?

Thanks in Advance

Marshall

 

[Matthew Harris [MVP]]

Windows 2000 can't map COM ports unless you have a third
party addon, like Citrix MetaFrame. Windows 2003 does
this natively though...

10 people on your machine sounds very reasonable, although
this all depends on what applications they are going to be
running while they are logged on. Try logging on one user
and seeing what their memory and processor consumption
looks like, then try to estimate 10 times that.

-M

-----Original Message-----
Hello,
We are investigating deploying an application over

terminal services to address some internal banwidth
issues. The application we are using includes the ability
to upload files from a percon badge scanner. In client
server mode we place two files in the applications folder
and they handle the connectivity to the serial port. If I
was to place those same files up on a Windows 2000 server,
would it see the com port?

Essentially I guess the question is, can a terminal

session recognize local serial ports?

If so is there any special configuration we have to do?
And last but not least if we can do this, is 10

concurrent users feasible on a 2 proc 2.5 ghz machine with
2 gb ram?