International conference on Networking and Services (ICNS'06)
Seamless Peripherals Integration for Network Computers based on the Reversed Server Message Block Protocol
Silicon Valley, California, USA
July 16-July 18
ISBN: 0-7695-2622-5
Peng Li, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, China
This paper presents a convenient and safe way for using the peripherals of thin clients under the serverbased computing model seamlessly. In this way, a client user can access his/her local peripherals as they are residing in the server directly. In contrast with the common use case of server-based computing, the server is configured as the ?consumer? to access the local resources of network computers through Server Message Block (SMB) protocol and the latter act as the ?provider?. Besides convenience, it makes the access safe because the server?s access-control mechanism can be employed directly to implement a centralized security management for these devices. Compared with Remote Desk Protocol (RDP) that implements a similar solution for Windows OS, ours is independent on any existing OS and can be ported to different platforms. Moreover, the performance of this solution is much higher.
Citation:
Youhui Zhang, Peng Li, Dongsheng Wang, Weimin Zheng, "Seamless Peripherals Integration for Network Computers based on the Reversed Server Message Block Protocol," icns, pp.112, International conference on Networking and Services (ICNS'06), 2006