Guide to communicating with a device plugged into a client com port??

[Paladyr]

We have a customer who is trying to use a program via citrix and wants to have the program be able to communicate with a scanner located locally on the client's PC. Anyone have a guide on how to set this up? I don't have a citrix server to test on but I was hoping I could read up enough to consult someone trying to do it. Thanks in advance!

 

[Paladyr]

Sorry it's not a scanner, it's an "indicator" that is connected to a scale. Basically it is the device that reads the weight of whatever is on the scale.

 

[itsp1965]

Although Citrix supports client COM port re-direction, the application on the Citrix server has to be "aware" in order to be able to perform re-direction.

 

[Paladyr]

So in Citrix, it can't just emulate a com port so that any program trying to access com port 1 (emulated port) would automatically get re-directed by citrix?

 

[itsp1965]

As long as the application talks to directly to the COM port, I don't see why the data cannot be re-directed back to the client. But in order to make this work, you will probably need to install the driver for the scanner on the Citrix server. The only experience I have had COM port re-direction is with serial printers and modems. In these cases, the driver had to be installed on the Citrix box.