The Windows connector provides serial device mapping, which enables users to access
external serial devices connected to a Sun Ray Client or an Oracle Virtual Desktop Client
running on a Windows client computer. When initiating the Windows connecter, you need to
configure the device mapping through the -r comport:
option of the
uttsc command.
Here is an example of mapping a
serial device mounted on $UTDEVROOT/dev/term/a
to the
device name SER_A
.
uttsc -r comport:SER_A=$UTDEVROOT/dev/term/a -i ip_addr
For details on how to determine where serial devices are mounted for a desktop client, see Section 15.4, “Accessing Serial Devices and USB Printers”.
USB-to-serial adapters are not accessible through the generated device nodes. You must use USB redirection in a Windows session to access a serial device connected through a USB-to-serial adapter.
Once the serial device is mapped, there are various ways to verify that the serial device
is available as mapped, such as SER_A
in the previous example. See Table 17.11, “Windows Commands to Verify Available Serial Devices” for the list of some recommended
commands and the notes that follow.
Table 17.11. Windows Commands to Verify Available Serial Devices
Windows Version | chgport /q | net use | mode | PuTTY |
---|---|---|---|---|
Windows XP | Yes, see notes | No | No | Yes |
Windows Server 2003 R2 | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Here are some notes for Table 17.11, “Windows Commands to Verify Available Serial Devices”.
chgport /q - This command is not part of Windows XP. However, you can copy
both the change.exe
and chgport.exe
executable
files from a Windows Server 2003 R2 system to a Windows XP system and use them. Under Windows XP, the
chgport \q command will display the device if you map it using the
following command, where COMn:
is an unused COM port and
mapped_name
is the name of the mapped device:
net use \\COMn:
\\tsclient\mapped_name
net use and mode - You should run both of these commands from the Windows command prompt.
PuTTY - This command is available free at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/download.html. Do not type a colon (<literal>:</literal) when entering a serial port in PuTTY, even if the mapped name contains a colon.