Re: USE BOTH /dev/tts/0 AND /dev/printers/0 ???

Could you explain your intentions in connecting over a serial line with
the server ?
Something like PPP or SLIP ?

On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 12:57:32AM +0200, Valon Hoxha wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Diego,
> 
> I have posted this message in the forum but nobody can say something about
> that, I think it very interesting, do you have some connection to ask
> somebody?
> 
> IDEA:
> 
> TWO questions: the second one is very very interesting!!!!
> 
> 1. I want to use two devices: lets say one is a Printer that i connect to PC
> in /dev/printers/0 and the other one is a Input Device (Point of Sale POS)
> that I connect to /dev/tts/0 (COM Port).
> Im using pxes version 0.8 to generate a ISO image for RDP session, so it's a
> Windows Terminal Server 2000 that I connect to!
> 
> Diego wrote me an email back about that:
> You can use as many ports as you want, but you need to add some tweaks by
> hand in etc/init.d/rcS.
> Use devfs names (ie: /dev/printers/0).
> 
> Special thank to Diego!
> 
> But Im a newbie in LINUX! I checked the rcS. file but I have no clue where
> to modify it in order to Support both SERIAL and PRINTER Port while I
> connect to Windows TS.
> 
> Okey, from my experience I know that you can change the PORT Number
> "9100=default" in which the Thin Client talks to Windows TS Server in LPT
> Port! This brings me to the second Question!
> 
> 2. Is there a way, to SAY to the Thin Client "Dear Mr. Pxes Thin Client,
> connect after you boot up to SERVER X using your Local COM Port, with "2222"
> Port number?????COM--->TCP????"
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Valon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Diego Torres Milano [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 1:06 AM
> To: Valon Hoxha
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Serial and LPT Port
> 
> Please use SF's mailing list.
> You can use as many ports as you want, but you need to add some tweaks 
> by hand in etc/init.d/rcS.
> Use devfs names (ie: /dev/printers/0).
> 
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 10:33:23PM +0200, Valon Hoxha wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Is there a way to use both SERIAL and PRINTER port on PXES, I want to boot
> > up on Windows Terminal Server and being able to use TWO Devices, one works
> > in /dev/ttyS0 and the other on /dev/lpt0.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Valon
> > 
> 
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