Remote Device Control

Overview
- Product Overview
- Requirements
- Complete Product Specifications


Features
- Features Overview
- Windows Connectivity
- Unix/Linux Connectivity
- Collaboration
- Reduced TCO
- Security

Add-ons
- Accounting Solutions
- Web Portal
- Device Control

Solutions
- VPN vs. ThinAnywhere
- Hummingbird's Exceed vs. ThinAnywhere

Product overview

Remotely access and control devices throughout your ThinAnywhere network.  Plot to a local plotter from a central server halfway across the world.  Read and write to a local tape drive from a centralized application.  

ThinAnywhere's Remote Device Control has the capability of connecting a world wide network of devices giving your employees and clients seamless access to IT resources no matter where they are located.

Cross platform compatibility

Instead of device mapping which may not return proper error status, actual control of devices is performed by utilizing an internal protocol to fully manage the device on the client side and interface with the application program on the server side for device requests. Devices on the server can also be read from or written to from the client machine.

With ThinAnywhere, clients can access plotters and tape drives connected to both Unix or Windows based machines.  Therefore a Windows client in Canada can access a central server in the United States and plot to a Solaris client in France.  ThinAnywhere is graying the lines between operating systems allowing true device compatibility.

Functionality

• Easy to install, manage and maintain
• Remotely connect 36 and 24 inch plotters
• Supports HPRTL, HPGL2, and raw raster files
• Read and write to remote SCSI tape drives
• Cross-platform compatibility