[Thinstation-general] USB Sticks (and Thinlinc)

[Dave B. <bo...@cn...>]

Hi.

I'm trying to get USB working with my Session 0 being ThinLinc.

It's unclear exactly how things are supposed to work.

All the end user will have access to is the main ThinLinc gui
application and then their login'ed thinlinc session (on linux).

So...

User inserts usb stick into the thin client (an Asus EEEBox in this
case). Dmesg on the thin client shows that the thinstation OS recognizes
the USB stick and partition table/etc.

Is the thin client now supposed to automount the USB stick? Or not?

Is the thin client supposed to mount the USB stick when the user, in the
thinlinc remote session (LInux), run tl-mount-localdrives ?

The documentation on thinlinc's side implies that the thinstation is
supposed to mount the stick and export the mount via NFS... but again,
thinstation never actually mounts anything.

And then the question would be, how does the user on the thinstation
side safely *un* mount the stick? In the remote session, the user would
run tl-umount-localdrives, but the stick (if it was mounted) wouldn't be
unumounted by ThinStation. Or is something automagic supposed to happen?

Thanks.

ps the Default thinstation.build.conf mentions /mnt/usbdevice, but this
directory doesn't exist on the thinstation, so something isn't adding up
here.

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David William Botsch
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