Slaved peripherals in an RDP environment

Has anyone setup a usb magnetic card reader, & serial cash drawer on a PC that uses an RDP connection to access FACTS through a Terminal Server& gotten it to work?

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sjacquin

Paul. Find and install a program called gettscip.exe. I put it in the inforfacts77 directory. I have this program, which I call gettscip.pvx which I invoke out of SME10A:
0005 seterr 0070
0007 if %imc_tsc_ip then goto *return
0010 x=sys(%wdx$+"cmd /c gettscip >ti.txt")
0020 open (hfn,err=0031)%wdx$+"ti.txt"
0030 read (lfo,err=*next)xx$; goto 0036
0035 no_tsc=1
0040 close (lfo)
0050 if not(no_tsc) then trash$=cvs(xx$(pos(":"=xx$)+1),3)
0060 %imc_tsc_ip$=trash$,%imc_tsc_ip=1
0065 if no_tsc then gosub DO_WINDX else %imc_sig_ip$=%imc_tsc_ip$
0070 exit
0100 DO_WINDX:
0105 trash=pos(";"=%windx_port$); if trash then %imc_sig_ip$=%windx_port$(1,trash-1)

You now have the IP address of the "local" PC connected to the Terminal Server and should allow you to access the devices from within facts. I have done this w/ Cash drawers many times. Not sure about the card reader.

BradleyBrown

We built a custom solution for a customer using serial signature pads and Windows Server 2003 where we mapped the signature pad into the terminal session using the rdp client. In this way we're able to access the sig pad local to the terminal server using a combination of the sig pad vendor's COM object, the terminal server's IIS installation and ASP pages, which the vendor supplied examples for.

Getting your signature pads to work will depend on the terminal server version. If using Win 2003 then you are limited to mapping serial devices through the rdp session.
From what I have read, but have note tested, Win Server 2008 has some support for mapping usb devices through the terminal session.

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