Burning a CD on Windows Server 2003 Terminal services - From Clien

[eric Wood]

Hello.

We have a dedicated Windows Server 2003 box and HP Thin Clients.

I understand that the HP Thin Clients and the Windows server support local
drive mapping (For CDROM drives, USB drives, etc), however we would like to
take it one step further.

We have a HP Read/Write CD/DVD USB drive to accommodate the HP Thin Clients.
We can get the Thin Client to see the CD functionality of the USB device,
however we are unable to get the O/S to recognize the "burning" side.

Here's my question.
The CDROM drive can with software for burning. I don't want to just install
the software on the terminal server without some sort of confidence it is
going to work. The Terminal Server is not picking up the drive as a CDRW
drive, and as a result I don't see how a program can notice the difference.
It only knows whta the OS tells it.

My second question (although I think I know the answer to this).
Will users be able to put a music CD into the drive, connect to Terminal
Services, and play through the speakers? The music CD would not be MP3, it
would be a normal music CD which would come from a music store.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank You

Eric Wood

 

[Jeff Pitsch]

Re: Burning a CD on Windows Server 2003 Terminal services - FromClien

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eric Wood wrote:
> Hello.
>
> We have a dedicated Windows Server 2003 box and HP Thin Clients.
>
> I understand that the HP Thin Clients and the Windows server support local
> drive mapping (For CDROM drives, USB drives, etc), however we would like to
> take it one step further.
>
> We have a HP Read/Write CD/DVD USB drive to accommodate the HP Thin Clients.
> We can get the Thin Client to see the CD functionality of the USB device,
> however we are unable to get the O/S to recognize the "burning" side.
>
> Here's my question.
> The CDROM drive can with software for burning. I don't want to just install
> the software on the terminal server without some sort of confidence it is
> going to work. The Terminal Server is not picking up the drive as a CDRW
> drive, and as a result I don't see how a program can notice the difference.
> It only knows whta the OS tells it.

No, TS doesn't recognize CD-ROM drives. The remapped drives are
recognized as network drives. This will not work.

>
> My second question (although I think I know the answer to this).
> Will users be able to put a music CD into the drive, connect to Terminal
> Services, and play through the speakers? The music CD would not be MP3, it
> would be a normal music CD which would come from a music store.

You could potentially do this the question is do you want too. The
enormous amount of bandwidth that would be used and the enormous amount
of resources used on the server to play the CD's would have a huge
detrimental effect on your users sessions.

>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thank You
>
> Eric Wood