SmartBoards and Citrix Vdiab

[RJohnson91]

Morning all,

 

I have problems, many problems... but the one I wish to ask is about Smartboards and Citrix VDI in a box.

 

Let me give you some background information, we are running our 'thinclients' on old machines, with a windows 7 thin base, using a thinkiosk software to stop proccesses and point the user to the Vdiab login screen, for them to grab a cirtual machine.

 

We want to do this for the teacher machines also, we have managed this with computers attached to starboards because the driver can be 'split up' and some placed on the thinclient and some placed on the virtual machine.

 

However with smartboard software and drivers this does not work, I have tried the following alternatives (VM = Virtual Machine // TC = ThinClient), also when I mention 'write' and 'touch', write is the ability to pick up a pen and write in the box that appears. Touch is the ability to select icons and folders through touch.

 

VM - Software

TC - Drivers

Conclusion - Write feature works perfectly, however no notebook 'touch' sidebar or calabrate feature on VM due to no drivers.

 

VM - Software & Drivers

TC - Drivers

Conclusion - Write feature works perfectly, notebook 'touch' sidebar and calabration present however side bar and touch does not work.

 

VM - Software & Drivers

TC - Nothing

Conclusion - Write feature works perfectly, notebook 'touch' sidebar and calabration present however side bar and touch does not work.

 

At no point can we get the side bar and the 'touch' to work. However the 'write' side of things always works.

 

I have used the search feature on edugeek, and the only post I could pull up was about 3 years old explaining that smart do not have the correct drivers for virtual. Is this still the case, can anyone shed light on any of this

 

Thanks!

 

Ryan

[RJohnson91]

Anyone got any ideas on this... Stopping our project going forward

 

Ryan

[RJohnson91]

Guessing that this is a no go!?

 

Ryan

[FN-GM]

Have you tried running the Smartboard drivers on the thin client and notebook software on the VM?

[RJohnson91]

Have you tried running the Smartboard drivers on the thin client and notebook software on the VM?

 

 

VM - Software

TC - Drivers

Conclusion - Write feature works perfectly, however no notebook 'touch' sidebar or calabrate feature on VM due to no drivers.

 

In my above post mate, it doesn't work

[FN-GM]

Oh sorry missed that. For calibrate I have seen someone use some software (cant remember what) that you run an app on the VDI and it will go back to the thin client and run it on that. Also some software you run on the thinclient that will launch the calibration using the hotkeys. That could sort the calibration.

[RJohnson91]

Oh sorry missed that. For calibrate I have seen someone use some software (cant remember what) that you run an app on the VDI and it will go back to the thin client and run it on that. Also some software you run on the thinclient that will launch the calibration using the hotkeys. That could sort the calibration.

 

 

Thanks, the problem is when the drivers aren't on the virtual machine the little 'bar' doesn't display... (This one, sorry picture tiny)

[FN-GM]

I cant think of a way round not having the bar, but could get calibration working.

[RJohnson91]

I cant think of a way round not having the bar, but could get calibration working.

 

Hmm see thats the problem! I may give hitachi a ring and ask.

[FN-GM]

hitachi? I would have thought Smart would have been a better contact?

[RJohnson91]

hitachi? I would have thought Smart would have been a better contact?

 

 

Yeah Smart sorry that's what I meant.

[FN-GM]

Oh right, thought they did some kind of install or something down the line

[RJohnson91]

Oh right, thought they did some kind of install or something down the line

 

 

Well we use hitachi projectors with smartboards, in my Monday tired state my brain told me Hitachi owned smart products

[bearer]

Hi Ryan, have you managed to get this fixed? we are having the same problems.

 

Paul

[RJohnson91]

Hi Ryan, have you managed to get this fixed? we are having the same problems.

 

Paul

 

Hi Paul,

 

We have not managed to get this fixed at all, I have spoken to smartboard directly and they say they they do not support virtual at all... strange.

 

However I have got in contact with 10zig thin client, and they say that they have got other schools working with smartboards, so we have got a few test boxes coming from them, and if they do work we can dissect their windows imbedded and see what is different to ours.

 

Ill post results when I know

 

 

Ryan

[jase]

hi Ryan

 

did you manage to get this working , having problems with vdi-in-a-box and Ncomputing N500 series

 

thanks

 

jase

[c4m3la]

Hi Ryan,

 

Did you ever get the thin clients, or fat to thin pcs to work with smartboards? We have n500 ncomputing thin clients with Citrix viab and no luck here. Now we are getting the newer interactive smart projectors.

Any Help Thanks,

[RJohnson91]

Hi Ryan,

 

Did you ever get the thin clients, or fat to thin pcs to work with smartboards? We have n500 ncomputing thin clients with Citrix viab and no luck here. Now we are getting the newer interactive smart projectors.

Any Help Thanks,

 

 

Hi C4m3la,

 

We stuck with only having our curriculum machines on virtual in the end.

 

All student machines are fat clients and all teacher/staff machines are physical.

 

It's a mish mash, but to have the two systems separate is actually quite nice!

 

Ryan