Hi,
Is there any way (easy or hard) to be able to redirect arbitrary HID
device input from the console session of an XP system to a RDP based
session?
All suggestions welcome :-).
Thanks
Pankaj
Pankaj Garg wrote:
Is there any way (easy or hard) to be able to redirect arbitrary HID
device input from the console session of an XP system to a RDP based
session?All suggestions welcome.
Do you mean you want a mouse or keyboard that is plugged in at the
console to instead control an RDP session? There’s no way to do that.
Why would you want to? What’s the scenario?
–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Tim,
I need this capability not for keyboard/mouse but for any other HID
device. Other HID devices can be USB card reader or USB touch screen
monitor. But I guess in the end they are somewhat like keyboard mouse
only.
The scenario is VM’s using USB devices attached across network to
hardware clients.
-pankaj
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[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:58 PM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: Re: [ntdev] HID device input Redirection
Pankaj Garg wrote:
Is there any way (easy or hard) to be able to redirect arbitrary HID
device input from the console session of an XP system to a RDP based
session?All suggestions welcome.
Do you mean you want a mouse or keyboard that is plugged in at the
console to instead control an RDP session? There’s no way to do that.
Why would you want to? What’s the scenario?
–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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Just to be clear, most usb smart card readers are not HID devices, rather they implement the usb spec for CCID. In that vein you are asking if TS supports redirection of generic USB traffic and I don’t think it does.
d
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From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Pankaj Garg
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:14 PM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: RE: [ntdev] HID device input Redirection
Tim,
I need this capability not for keyboard/mouse but for any other HID
device. Other HID devices can be USB card reader or USB touch screen
monitor. But I guess in the end they are somewhat like keyboard mouse
only.
The scenario is VM’s using USB devices attached across network to
hardware clients.
-pankaj
-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:58 PM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: Re: [ntdev] HID device input Redirection
Pankaj Garg wrote:
Is there any way (easy or hard) to be able to redirect arbitrary HID
device input from the console session of an XP system to a RDP based
session?All suggestions welcome.
Do you mean you want a mouse or keyboard that is plugged in at the
console to instead control an RDP session? There’s no way to do that.
Why would you want to? What’s the scenario?
–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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Pankaj Garg wrote:
I need this capability not for keyboard/mouse but for any other HID
device. Other HID devices can be USB card reader or USB touch screen
monitor. But I guess in the end they are somewhat like keyboard mouse
only.The scenario is VM’s using USB devices attached across network to
hardware clients.
I can understand wanting to go the other direction. For example, if I
have a USB fingerprint reader plugged in to my machine, and I’m RDPing
into a Terminal Services server somewhere, I can imagine it would be
nice to have the card reader be temporarily assigned to the server for
validation. I find it hard to come up with scenarios where the other
direction is useful. The whole point of RDP is that I shouldn’t need
physical access to the server.
–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
I was actually not talking about smart cards…but generic card
readers…(could be credit card/ID card).
I am talking about generic device redirection…but specifically HID. I
know TS doesn’t support it and was wondering if there was a way to get
it done (even if it’s a hard way).
-p
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[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Doron Holan
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:26 PM
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Subject: RE: [ntdev] HID device input Redirection
Just to be clear, most usb smart card readers are not HID devices,
rather they implement the usb spec for CCID. In that vein you are
asking if TS supports redirection of generic USB traffic and I don’t
think it does.
d
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From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Pankaj Garg
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 4:14 PM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: RE: [ntdev] HID device input Redirection
Tim,
I need this capability not for keyboard/mouse but for any other HID
device. Other HID devices can be USB card reader or USB touch screen
monitor. But I guess in the end they are somewhat like keyboard mouse
only.
The scenario is VM’s using USB devices attached across network to
hardware clients.
-pankaj
-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com] On Behalf Of Tim Roberts
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:58 PM
To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
Subject: Re: [ntdev] HID device input Redirection
Pankaj Garg wrote:
Is there any way (easy or hard) to be able to redirect arbitrary HID
device input from the console session of an XP system to a RDP based
session?All suggestions welcome.
Do you mean you want a mouse or keyboard that is plugged in at the
console to instead control an RDP session? There’s no way to do that.
Why would you want to? What’s the scenario?
–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
NTDEV is sponsored by OSR
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Pankaj Garg wrote:
I was actually not talking about smart cards…but generic card
readers…(could be credit card/ID card).
Many card readers emulate keyboards. In the scenario I was describing,
where I have a reader plugged in to my local machine, the simulated
keystrokes should be redirected to the RDP session just as if I had
typed them.
–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.