USB Flash drives in terminal service

[Guest]

Dear Forums members,

We are using Win2003 terminal servers with Winterm Thin-client boxes.

We have users using USB flash drives but so far that we testing the drives
both with regural PC's using remote desktop and the Winterm Thin-client
boxes, we did not have any luck with making the USB drives work in terminal
services.

My question is does Win2003 terminal support usb drive redirection?

have a nice day!

 

[Rickard]

USB mapping is not supported, see
http://www.brianmadden.com/content/content.asp?id=99 for more info.

Rickard

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

This is what Brian Madden writes in the article that you refer to:

"USB mapping is still not supported, although USB printers and drives
are."

So USB drives *are* supported.

I've just tested with an rdp connection from XP to XP, and it works
like a charm. I can even see my digital camera

The general rule is: if your client supports the USB drive and treats
it as a local drive, and you have enabled redirection of local drives
in your rdp connection, then an USB drive is not treated differently
from any other local drive.

Of course, you have to connect the flash USB drive before you make
the rdp connection, since drive redirection occurs at connection
time, not continuously.

With regards to thin clients: I think it depends on the OS on the
thin client. Embedded XP should work, I'm not sure about CE.NET.

 

[Rickard]

Sorry, I must have been to tierd when I replied to this, of course USB drive
mapping is supported, we even use it where I work...

Rickard

 

[Graham Prentice]

I've got WinXPe HP-t5700 thin clients working in this mode.

On the RDP client click 'disk drives' and the USB key will show up as 'D on
TSCLIENTNAME' under My Computer.

Assuming 'Disk Drives' is ticked on your connection, a USB key can be
inserted AFTER the connection is made and the D drive will show up under My
Computer.

Graham

 

[Graham Prentice]

I don't believe WinCE will support USB drives redirection.
Graham

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

Aaah, that's better behaviour than I expected. Thanks for posting
this info, Graham!