How to access terminal client's com-ports?

[Alex Vihorev]

Hi all. We've got POS application which requires direct
access to client's com-ports in order to work with
printer/POS-display/cash-drawer. How can we do it?
Clients are WinXP, WinCE. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Hi all. We've got POS application which requires direct
access to client's com-ports in order to work with
printer/POS-display/cash-drawer. How can we do it?
Clients are WinXP, WinCE. Thanks.
.

We allready do this but we use Citrx MetaFrame for the
Remapping of Client Drives/Printers & Comm ports.

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

What OS do you run on the server?
2003 TS supports redirection of COM ports, W2K does not.

 

[Meher Malakapalli]

What you can do is to find the TSxx port that corresponds to the COM port on
the client side and write to that TSxx port

 

[Alex Vihorev]

-----Original Message-----
What OS do you run on the server?
2003 TS supports redirection of COM ports, W2K does not.

Yes, I've heard that, so we migrated to Win2003. But
still I can't connect to local ports, local disks are
perfectly accessable though. Net view/net use does not
lists com-ports as available resources. How do you
connect to these local ports in Win2003? I know it's
supported natively, but can't find info how to map a
connection to com-port.

 

[Alex Vihorev]

Yes, I've heard that, so we migrated to Win2003. But
still I can't connect to local ports, local disks are
perfectly accessable though. Net view/net use does not
lists com-ports as available resources. How do you
connect to these local ports in Win2003? I know it's
supported natively, but can't find info how to map a
connection to com-port.

OK, I guess the problem is solved. NET VIEW \\tsclient does not seem to
work, but NET USE com5 \\tsclient\com1 does work. Thank you, everyone!