RE: USB Mass Storage Devices

I notice that the latest version of PXES includes an option for USB Flash
drives.  What additional configuration is needed to make these work with
ICA? (if any).  I presume I should map a drive letter to something like
/mnt/usb?  Will PXES take care of supermounting etc, or is there some kernel
tweaking necessary?

I have no experience of using flash drives with Linux, but many of our
students have expressed a wish to use them - any help appreciated. 
PXES is getting better and better all the time!

Graham Pugh PhD
Web Developer
Kings of Wessex Community School, Cheddar
email: gpugh-AT-educ.somerset.gov uk
web: www.commweb.org
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Jan-Marc Pilawa [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 25 February 2004 17:41
To: [email protected]; Graham.Pugh - SCH520
Cc: '[email protected]'
Subject: Re: [pxes-devel] USB Mass Storage Devices


Zitat von "Graham.Pugh - SCH520" <[email protected]>:

> I don't know what state the drivers are for Linux with regarding to 
> the "USB Mass Storage" devices.  We have proprietary thin clients here 
> (Wyse) which
> can be configured to accept USB floppy drives, smart card readers,
> memory
> sticks etc., all of which seem to use the standard USB mass storage
> driver. 
> 
> Is this possible for PXES thin clients?  I guess that depends on USB 
> drivers being available for Linux.
> 

Last State I know is: Compile own Kernel with some more usb-modules
available. Don't forget supermount.o and it can theoretically work. You
need some scripts, so that the newly plugged device is supermounted to
/mnt/usbsomething. (Be aware, that ntfs can't be mounted with supermounts
"auto"-option for filesystem. this will fail! other Filesystems work
well. Also nice to know: some of my students have memoryticks which are
not correctly detected. So, if you try, try with a working one ;-)
Best Regards
Jan Pilawa.

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