Seamless Peripherals Integration for Network Computers based on the Reversed Server Message Block Protocol

This paper presents a convenient and safe way for using the peripherals of thin clients under the server-based 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