How to access terminal client's com-ports?

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Alex Vihorev

Hi all. We've got POS application which requires direct
access to client's com-ports in order to work with
printer/POS-display/cash-drawer. How can we do it?
Clients are WinXP, WinCE. Thanks.
 
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Hi all. We've got POS application which requires direct
access to client's com-ports in order to work with
printer/POS-display/cash-drawer. How can we do it?
Clients are WinXP, WinCE. Thanks.
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We allready do this but we use Citrx MetaFrame for the
Remapping of Client Drives/Printers & Comm ports.
 
What OS do you run on the server?
2003 TS supports redirection of COM ports, W2K does not.
 
What you can do is to find the TSxx port that corresponds to the COM port on
the client side and write to that TSxx port
 
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What OS do you run on the server?
2003 TS supports redirection of COM ports, W2K does not.
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Yes, I've heard that, so we migrated to Win2003. But
still I can't connect to local ports, local disks are
perfectly accessable though. Net view/net use does not
lists com-ports as available resources. How do you
connect to these local ports in Win2003? I know it's
supported natively, but can't find info how to map a
connection to com-port.
 
Alex Vihorev said:
Yes, I've heard that, so we migrated to Win2003. But
still I can't connect to local ports, local disks are
perfectly accessable though. Net view/net use does not
lists com-ports as available resources. How do you
connect to these local ports in Win2003? I know it's
supported natively, but can't find info how to map a
connection to com-port.
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OK, I guess the problem is solved. NET VIEW \\tsclient does not seem to
work, but NET USE com5 \\tsclient\com1 does work. Thank you, everyone!
 
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