Digitus DS-15202-1, User Manual

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Please be noted that Drive Redirection works on a more basic level than the operating
systems of the computers. This means that neither the Remote-side nor the Host-side
operating system is aware that the drive is being redirected. This may lead to inconsistent
data when the operating system (either on the Remote-side or Host-side machine) is
writing data on the device. If write support is enabled, the Host computer might damage
the data and the file system on the redirected device. On the other hand, if the
Remote-side operating system tries to write data to the redirected device, the drive cache
of the Host’s operating system might contain older data.
Because the operating systems are not aware that the drive is being redirected, they could
try to write data at the same time and therefore cause error messages to pop up. We
therefore recommend that the Remote user uses the Drive Redirection function with care,
especially if write support is enabled.
Disable Drive Redirection
To disable the Drive Redirection function.
Force read-only connections
If you enable the Force read-only connections function, write support for the Drive
Redirection feature will be switched off once you click Apply . This will make it
impossible to write on a redirected device, which is a safer option if you don’t want to
take the risk of file-system-destroying write-over collisions between the Remote and.
Click Apply to submit your changes.
11.2.2 Virtual Drive
Figure 52: USB mass storage option
Enable this option to disable the mass storage emulation (and hide the virtual drive) if you
are not presenting (or “mounting”) a disk image file or drive to the Host system. After
ticking or unticking the checkbox, click the
Apply button to save your changes
.
Note: If the above setting is not enabled, and if no disk image file is detected, the Host