Re: [rdesktop-devel] Q: accessing card reader at terminal server?

[Devin S. <dev...@gm...>]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Nardmann, Heiko
<hei...@se...> wrote:
> Hi together!
>
> I would like to access a smartcard reader attached to the terminal server.
> How
> do I configure rdesktop for this? Is this possible? So far I do not see any
> smartcard readers when being connected via rdesktop to the remote Win XP
> machine (which has 4 smartcard readers connected to it). Is there something
> inside the RDP specification prohibiting this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Heiko Nardmann
>

Hi,

>From what I understand, RDP device redirection works the other way
around. Devices attached to the client machine can be
redirected/attached to the server. The server never announces the
devices that are connected to it to the client.

Hope that helps.

Devin Smith