How to access *remote* usb devices over rdesktop

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I have a USB smartcard reader connected to a windows XP system. When I am accessing this system using the rdesktop Linux client, the windows system no longer "sees" the USB device, even though it's physically connected to the computer.

What do I have to do to get this to work?

Note that I am not talking about forwarding a local usb device to use it on the remote computer.

Nikratio

Posted 2011-05-26T14:10:08.417

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Have you tried rDesktop's -0 switch to attach to the XP console session (session 0)? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2011-05-26T15:51:49.963

@techie007: yes, does not help. – Nikratio – 2011-05-26T18:01:31.073

Does the device show up in device manager at all? – Waxhead – 2011-10-23T09:28:59.107

Answers

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This works for me on my RHEL 6.4 machine

rdesktop <targetmachine> -r scard

rhel64admin

Posted 2011-05-26T14:10:08.417

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