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What would USB printing on a SunRay look like? Even in general, how do thin clients work with accessories and the like? It does feel like there's some tension b
by rtpg 1y ago
What would USB printing on a SunRay look like? Even in general, how do thin clients work with accessories and the like? It does feel like there's some tension between "this USB device is plugged directly into a computer" and "the computer is not 'the' computer"?
Seems like a tricky problem but clearly at least some of it was solved given USB ports were on the machine
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y agoWhat's tricky about it? You can use USB over IP on Linux in the real world today, so I can't see any reason why you couldn't pass devices from the thin client to the server in the same way. The only slight oddity is that you would pretend that it was a USB hub that got plugged and unplugged whenever the session connected and disconnected.
- rtpg 1y agoWell GP mentioned that there _wasn't_ USB printing support, right? If USB over IP "just worked" and the sunray had USB over IP support then there's USB printing support right? But I just realized the "USB printing support" stuff was maybe less about USB printers themselves and more about being able to have, say, 30 thin clients with 30 different printers hooked up but the application would know which printer was the right one (instead of showing 30 printers available, for example)