USB and Serial ports in RDP

[snootalope]

It's been a real long time since I've had a need for this and don't remember how to do it.

I've got a Windows 2003 SP2 box with a device attached via USB and another via it's Serial port. There are a couple of applications that run on that box that depend on those two devices. The applications work just fine when launched from the console, but it's a pain to have to run to the console each time to do something. So, I'm trying to get it working again so I can sign into that machine via remote desktop and both programs can see and use the USB and Serial device connected to it, even though I'm sign into the server from another machine. Right now, I sign via RDP and neither work since they can see the COM ports.

Does anyone recall how to do this?

 

[itsp1965]

Unless you have disabled COM port re-direction on your terminal server you should make sure you have it enabled in RDC.
As far as I know you're out of luck with regards to USB re-direction though

 

[cmeagan656]

You used to be able to remotely connect to a console session using the following: mstsc /console /v:servername

Starting with XP SP3 you should now use: mstsc /admin /v:servername

Hope this helps.

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