[X2Go-User] USB forwarding documentation

[Stefan Baur]

Am 08.11.2017 um 00:39 schrieb Stefan Baur:
>>> 2) getting xfreerdp to forward that mountpoint to the RDP server.
>> This is proving difficult if not impossible. Supposedly, some invocation
>> of the /drive option should work, but I have not found good
>> documentation on syntax, nor have suggestions I found so far worked. Use
>> of the /usb option is not recommended as supposedly this is for
>> redirecting devices, such as printers or HID. There is even much
>> discussion among freerdp devs and users on how to properly implement
>> this functionality.
> My understanding is that you need to specify a share name along with the
> local path, so something like
> 
> /drive:flashmedia,/media/Generic_Flash_Disk/sda1 /drive:home,/home/user
> 
> should result in \\TSCLIENT\flashmedia and \\TSCLIENT\home becoming
> available inside the RDP session.

I just had a chance to try this out myself.
Problem is, while it works on a regular Linux box that has X2GoClient
installed, it failed on current X2Go-TCE-Live images.  This is because
we were missing a package - libfreerdp-plugins-standard - and its
dependencies in the images.

Please use

export
LBX2GO_CONFIG='https://github.com/LinuxHaus/live-build-x2go::feature/openbox'

or

export
LBX2GO_CONFIG='https://github.com/LinuxHaus/live-build-x2go::feature/openbox-magic-pixel-workaround'

for your build, that should fix it.  I will poke Juri to add these
changes to the official X2Go repo once I've properly tested them.

I was able to mount the thinclient's /media directory using
/drive:media,/media with xfreerdp in direct RDP mode after adding these
additional packages to the image. \\TSCLIENT\media showed the content of
the TC's local /media folder (as this is where the automounter mounts
all removable media, you should be good to go by forwarding just that path).

Kind Regards,
Stefan Baur

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