Re: Barcode Scanner on Client Com port

Thanks Jimmy,
I cannot find a Com port setting on my CE .NET device although it has one
and works fine locally with its pre-loaded terminal program. Could you let
me know where you found this setting?

So you did not need to modify your application at all to use it remotely
with Terminal Services? No mapping or anything?

Regards,
John.

"James Gillespie" <gillespieranch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OKYw5yWrFHA.1168@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I had a similar situation and found that I needed to set the com port
>setting on the CE.NET device to make it work properly.
>
> Jimmy
>
> "John Dinning" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23Z0IHOUrFHA.1204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>I have several Windows CE 4.2 .NET Terminal Services Clients running a
>>Win32 application very happily on a Windows 2003 Server.
>> I now have a need to add a barcode scanner attached to COM1 on each of
>> the Clients. Communications are one way only (from the scanner on the
>> slient to the server application) so there does not need to be any device
>> physically attached to Com1 on the server.
>>
>> The application on the server which the clients all run assumes that the
>> barcode scanner is attached to COM1, and the one instance runs fine on
>> the server.
>>
>> I have configured the client to 'connect automatically to the local
>> serial ports when logged on to the remote computer' and port redirection
>> is enabled within the servers terminal services configuration (by
>> default).
>>
>> But the application does not receive the data from the barcode scanner on
>> the client.
>>
>> Do I need to map Com1 on the client to Com1 on the server? If so how?
>>
>> Can several clients all use the same application on the server that opens
>> Com1 ? I.e. is there a virtual Com1 for each client session?
>>
>> I suspect (hope) that I have missed something simple here and confused
>> myself so any help is welcome.
>>
>> John Dinning
>>
>>
>>
>
>


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