Re: [rdesktop-devel] [rdesktop-users] Problems with USB disk redirection

[Fabio Z. <gu...@me...>]

I have noticed that this kind of problems is only related to WinXP Pro
terminal server: I have tested the rdp connection with a WinXP Pro SP3.

Does anybody experienced the same problem?

Fabio Zeri ha scritto:
> Hi to all,
> 
> I am experiencing some problems with USB disk redirection with rdesktop-1.6
> 
> I am connecting a linux client, with a linux custom distribution (linux
> from scratch) with glibc 2.3.6 and kernel 2.6.20, to the terminal server
> of a windows XP PC, virtualized with VMWare infrastructure.
> 
> The usb storage devices are redirected to the XP terminal server with
> the option
> -r disk:usbdevices=/mnt/usbdevices
> 
> /mnt/usbdevices is the directory where all the usb storage devices are
> mounted, on the linux client, with different directories (es.
> /mnt/usbdevices/disk1, /mnt/usbdevices/disk2, etc.)
> 
> All works well during the rdesktop session except for some USB storage
> device: they appear on the server side, but after some time the server
> avoids the access to the usb resources... sometime in the RDP session I
> have an authorization error, sometime I see the redirected device as an
> empty window.
> 
> I can say that the problem is related to the RDP session, because while
> in the RDP session I can't use the redirected usb device (ex.
> usbdevices\disk1), on the linux client I can normally work on the
> mounted dir /mnt/usbdevices/disk1.
> 
> I can't understand if the problem is related to rdesktop program or to
> the server side infrastructure.
> 
> Has anyone experienced the same problem?
> 
> Many thanks in advance.

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