Friday, March 22, 2013

How to Remote into Wyse T50 thin client

Lot many time if we have to take screenshot of thin client we use camera . Now this can be done via VNC also. Setup VNC server on Wyse thin client using password or without password

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Download the VNC viewer from RealVNC.  Once it is launch and connected it gives similar experience as any other remote tools

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How to capture TCP dump on Wyse T50

To capture Wyse T50 TCP dump we need to insure that we have "tcpdump" module is installed.  Now open terminal available

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2. Now  run following command to get latest tcpdump

su -
cd /etc/apt
cp sources.list sources.list.back
cp sources.list.orig sources.list
sudo apt-get update

3. Now install tcpdump on Wyse terminal

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And run following to autoclean

cp sources.list.back sources.list
sudo apt-get autoclean

4. Run following command to capture tcp dump

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5. This will files under /tmp file

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6. Now biggest challenge how to copy it? Insert pen drive into thin client and under following path you can copy tcpdump

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Integrating foot pedal with XenDesktop

Foot Pedal are used to playback audio or video and used by various different industries. Here we are trying to integrate one such foot pedal with Express Scribe Transcription Software.
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These are HID based device which require few policies on XD and then if we need to run via thin client then few setting on VDA

Client USB redirection work with XenApp 6.0 and XenDesktop 5.0 or latter .
1.  Make sure this policies are in place
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2. If we need to integrate with thin client then make sure we have registry hack for "AutoRedirect" explained in  CTX123015.  This need to made on virtual machine
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To get the PID and VID for this foot pedal use device manager or use any physical machine where this was presentimage
3. When this need to integrate with thin client we need to do force redirect from end device itself. Recently some of the Wyse model do provide option using TCX USB Virtualizer
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4. Lastly we should have USB device redirection rules applied on desktop group . Citrix eDocs explain in great detailimage
Once all these are in place this is how it show up when we use Wyse T50 thin client . Notice when Foot Pedal is plugged into thin client it does get auto detected.




And this is how it show up with Thick client