Thin Client Serial Port Communication

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Rebecca Barthlow

I am a co-op student from Kettering University currently
on work term. One of my assignments is to figure out how
to utilize an existing program (internally written) with
a thin client.

The program is on the server (running Microsoft Windows
Server 2000). It sends data to the serial port, which
causes a label to be printed out of a thermal printer
(connected to the client's local serial port).

So far, I've had no success. I've also done a lot of
research and haven't found anything published on a
solution of this sort. If anyone has any information to
help me in this matter, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Rebecca Barthlow
 
If the server can detect the printer on the COM port of
the client, then you should be able to do this... Make
sure the server has the correct mapping of the printer
driver in the ntprint.inf or printupg.inf file.

-M
 
Thanks, but that still doesn't work. The application will
fail if there is a printer driver only because the port
will seem to be in use by the OS. I need to be able to
redirect the data stream to a thin client's COM port.
The application will send to any COM port as long as the
COM port is identified in Windows as a device available
to the server. Generally, we see this in the device
manager. Any ideas now?

Thanks,
Rebecca
 
You will not be able to do this with Windows 2000 TS and thin clients.
You must use Windows 2003 TS or Windows 2000 TS with Citrix on top.

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