External Devices in non-Citrix Environment?

Barkmull asks: "We have been running a Windows 2000 Terminal Services-based network for some time. We are currently using RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) and CDS (Citrix Device Services) for local COM and printer port usage on our thin clients. My question is this: has anyone been successful in using USB port replication with Windows 2000 Terminal Services? We looked into using Metaframe XPe, but it is ridiculously expensive to implement. I would very much like to know what other solutions Slashdot users have come up with using Terminal Services and local port replication."

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Why Ask Slashdot sucks

[ObviousGuy]

Quite often Ask Slashdot questions are simple wastes of space as the answers are usually a quick Google search away. Not a chance goes by that certain slashbots don't take advantage of their ability to post and flame the submission for being so ridiculously simple as to be quite beneath the level of Slashdot gurus to answer it.

Then a question like this comes up. It is clear, direct, and most of all not at all obvious as to its solution. A simple Google search will certainly not suffice to help this submitter. No, it will require actual expertise from someone who has already done something similar or with expertise in the general area that can point the way to resources that would be overlooked by the uninitiated. This discussion would be valuable to all as a jumping point to learn about the topic at a much deeper level.

But no. For all the whining about Ask Slashdot questions being too easy, there certainly is a conspicuous lack of answers.

Ask Slashdot sucks because the questions that can be answered are generally too easy and in turn quite uninteresting, but the questions that require actual knowledge and mastery of a field are simply too far beyond the capabilities of the Slashdot population. It's quite sad.