Device redirection
TSX USB is a legacy feature in XP/VS Terminal Server Professional that allows you to forward client attached USB 2.0 devices over RDP to your XP/VS Server as if they were attached locally to the USB port of the server. Unfortunately USB 3.0 devices are not supported.
To redirect drives, headsets, printers or webcams you may not need TSX USB explicitly as modern RDP clients support these devices out of the box. Especially for scanning hardware we have developed TSX Scan, which allows you to redirect your scanner without the need to install a driver on your server.
To check if your computer uses USB 2.0 simply run command "msinfo32" :
It is important which hardware is built in --- not the (by software) downgraded USB interface !
NOTE! If you forward 10 identical USB Devices from 10 different remote clients your server application will list all these ten, redirected USB devices in the Device Manager (as they have an identical vendor ID the listed names will be the same as well), just as if they where physically plugged into the usb ports of your server.
It now depends on your application (which is running on the server) if it can "differentiate" which of the 10 available USB devices to use for a specific user. If this is not possible to specify this assignment (individual USB Device to related RDP user) it will be difficult to find out the "correct" device.
In TSX USB admin utility on the client PC you decide which USB devices of the client you want to forward to the server and when you establish an RDP connection to your XP/VS Server this USB device will be forwarded resp. redirected.
In TSX USB admin utility select:
- "Connect to any devices ..." every USB device will be redirected from your client to your server"
- or "Only connect to the following USB devices ..."only devices with specific vendor and device IDs will be redirected to your server machine"
Further links:
Webcam over RDP
Silent installation
Printing over Remote Desktop