USB Storage support to Thin Clients.

[Davut AKCICEK]

I'll try these.

Thank you very much.

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 Davut AKCICEK, (Research Ass.)   
 University of Canakkale Onsekiz Mart
 Department of Computer Engineering
 Canakkale, TURKEY                     
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Rick Stevens yazmış:
> On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 23:18 +0300, davut wrote:
>   
>> Thanks for reply. I have HPT5525 Thin 
>> Client(http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/12454-321959-89307-338927-89307-500797.html). 
>> Linux 2.4 running on it, and  XFCE 3.X Desktop Manager running on it. 
>> Unfortunately, XFCE hasn't a dropdown menu or secondary window about 
>> local devices or USB disk.
>>     
>
> I haven't used XFCE in a LONG time.  I'd have to dig it up on one of my
> old machines.
>
>   
>> On thin client's OS without connect to server's X server, When I plugged 
>> the USB disk to thin client, I tried as a root user #mount /dev/sda1 
>> /mnt/usb but got an error that "/dev/sda1 not found". There isn't sda 
>> device at system. So, I couldn't use USB disk via mount it on console.
>> Then, I connect to the server's X server.  I plugged USB disk to thin 
>> client, but I could not see /dev/sda on system(on server). What can I do?
>>     
>
> Ah, humm, kernel 2.4.  You may need to "modprobe usb-storage" to force
> the USB storage module to load up.  Then plugging in your USB drive
> should show up.  So:
>
> 	1. Unplug the drive
> 	2. As root, "modprobe usb-storage"
> 	3. Plug the drive back in
>
> Once that's done, take a look at the output of "dmesg" and see if the
> drive was recognized.  If it was, you can either add the "modprobe
> usb-storage" command to the end of the /etc/rc.d/rc.local script or add
> a line to /etc/modules.conf like:
>
> 	alias scsi_hostadapter usb-storage
>
> which should force the module to load.  You may also want to add a line
> to /etc/auto.misc to do the automount when the drive shows up, e.g.
>
> 	usbdisk            -fstype=ext2            :/dev/sda1
>
> This assumes that the /mnt/usbdisk directory exists.
>
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