[X2Go-User] USB forwarding documentation

[Seth Galitzer]

I'm calling xfreerdp from TCE to connect directly to the RDP server. 
I've been trying to find the right cli options for xfreerdp to use for 
this, but documentation is pretty light on this and I have yet to find 
something that works.

If I run dmesg on the thin client device from within the TCE desktop, I 
can see that my flash drive is recognized, but it's not getting mounted. 
That sounds like a udev issue within debian, but I was hoping somebody 
on the list had already solved this problem.

Thanks.
Seth

On 11/07/2017 12:37 PM, Stefan Baur wrote:
> Am 07.11.2017 um 18:59 schrieb Seth Galitzer:
>> I know this is a FAQ, but I've been unable to find an answer on my own.
>>
>> I'd like to be able to redirect a local USB flash drive to a remote
>> Windows host. I'm using TCE from a debian image deployed to my thin
>> client devices.
>>
>> If this is possible, what's the magic recipe to make this work?
> 
> X2Go doesn't do generic USB device forwarding - at all.
> What it can forward are local file shares - that's also how printing is
> currently handled.
> A USB mass storage device or optical drive is exposed as a file share,
> then forwarded - as long as we're talking about native X2Go sessions,
> that magic recipe is the package x2gousbmount (on the client) and the
> patch for it that's part of the TCE-Live build scripts.
> 
> However, for RDP, we currently don't have anything like that built in.
> Are you using RDP in direct mode or with an X2Go Server inbetween?
> 
> With direct mode, you might be able to pass /usb or /drive as a
> parameter to xfreerdp in the session config. Untested, but might already
> do the trick.
> For RDP + X2Go Server mode, things will probably be a bit more hairy.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Stefan Baur
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> x2go-user mailing list
> x2go-user at lists.x2go.org
> https://lists.x2go.org/listinfo/x2go-user
> 


-- 
Seth Galitzer
Systems Coordinator
Computer Science Department
Kansas State University
http://www.cs.ksu.edu/~sgsax
sgsax at ksu.edu
785-532-7790