Re: [Thinstation-general] USB Sticks (and Thinlinc)

[Brian K. <bk...@ci...>]

Dave,  I'm using Vmware, but I believe the lines for your usb issue are as
follows (change # and Application to what you need).  In my current build,
I'm testing the build by booting from usb to save time.  However, you may
need to review thinlinc's manuals. There could be a config file that has to
be created/filled out to communicate properly with the usb's.  I had to do
that so that Vmware would communicate properly with a webcam.

USB_ENABLED=On
BIND_MOUNT0="storage:/mnt/storage"
STORAGE_CONFIG1=/mnt/storage
#USB_STORAGE_SYNC=on
USB_MOUNT_DIR="/mnt/usbdevice"
USB_MOUNT_USELABEL=YES
MOUNT_0="LABEL=boot     /boot           auto    x-mount.mkdir,defaults  0
    0"
MOUNT_1="LABEL=home     /root           auto    x-mount.mkdir,defaults  0
    0"
MOUNT_2="LABEL=swap     swap            swap    defaults        0       0"

SESSION_#_Application_AUTODETECT=TRUE
SESSION_#_Application_connectUSBOnStartup=true
SESSION_#_Application_connectUSBOnInsert=true



Brian Koch
IT Dept
City of Taylor, MI
(734) 374-1514 or Ext. 7550 (internal use)
Please have a ticket put in if you need an issue resolved.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Dave Botsch <bo...@cn...>
wrote:

> 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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