Alcor Micro Usb Smart Card Reader Driver

Install pcsc-tools and start the pcsc_scan utility, then connect the Smart card reader and finally insert a card.If you see output like this, the smart card reader and also the card have been successfully recognized.

Alcor Micro Usb Smart Card Reader Driver

When interfacing with a TV-card for live TV and recording (PVR/DVR), you may need to assign the smartcard reader to the video user group allowing decryption. When using a Smargo Smartreader consider the following udev rule:

If the browser is not able to use the smart card data, probably it is not aware of the service which provides access to the device. This happens if you plug in the smart card reader after you open Firefox.To solve this issue, simply restart Firefox.

Strangely, the Alcor reader will only get listed when a Smart Card is inserted. If I look at it in Device Manager, it doesn't show up under the "Smart card readers" until a card is inserted, too (unless I go to View > Show Hidden Devices).

Even if you only have a moderately sized VDI deployment chances are high you will face the problem of getting USB smart card readers to work on the virtual desktops. Given that this is such a basic requirement it is astonishingly hard to implement correctly. To save you the pain of having to start from scratch here is my description of how to do it.

Smart card readers are USB devices, so the only thing you have to do is plug them into the thin or fat client sitting on your desk and Citrix XenDesktop auto-magically makes them appear in your virtual desktop, right? Wrong. We are going to get to that magic, but we have got a bit of configuring to do first. To auto-map smart card readers like the Reiner SCT or Omnikey devices into virtual desktops we need:

On a Windows machine USB redirection rules are stored in the registry value HKLM\Software\Citrix\ICA Client\GenericUSB\DeviceRules. The format of that multiline string is identical to the file usb.conf on Linux. As described above locate the entry that denies smart card redirection and either delete it or comment it out.

I have tested this configuration with Citrix XenDesktop 5.6. The virtual desktops were running Windows 7 x64 with the XenDesktop VDA 5.6.200. Smart card readers tested were Reiner SCT cyberJack e-com and Omnikey CardMan 3121.

I followed your steps and could not get this to work unless I install a third party Smart Card software on the Virtual Desktop image (in this case Active Client). I really wanted to make this work using only the native Win7 smart card support. Any ideas?

Smart card pass-through authentication is working in my XenDesktop 5.6 environment, however the VDIs are not writing back to the smart card during the certificate auto renewal process. Any ideas what might be breaking that part of the process?

Hey , Have you tried using IGEL UDC v5.1.110 and smart card readers while accessing your citrix enviroment both xendesktop and xenapps ?Been having an issue with smart card readers being plugged in and not being able to login . Had no issue with V4.12.100 udc but now i am seeing issue on v5 .

Hi,Our customer has xen desktop enviroment with 1400 clients. Customer want to use smart card to login a web base application. Dont want to use it to login the thin client or virtual desktop. I did some changes on xen desktop policies and wyse end point manager.BUt couldnt see smartcard on device manager as a pass throught device.I need help abut this issue. Projects future depend on it.Thanks.

We are using omnikey 3121 smart card reader to capture data from civil id (smart card ) in java based web application.Its working fine locally in rdp session on xenapp server.When i try it from citrix session i am not able to capture all details of civil id(partial details aregetting displayed). Please help

Smart card reader is mapped correctly in Citrix VDI session, software that I use is mPollux DigiSign Client. Software will detect my card as well. When I try to authenticate to specific website within the Citrix VDI session the browser will not detect my card reader. Any advice?

To install AD Bridge Enterprise to support Smart Cards, you must include the smartcard option when you run the installer. If AD Bridge Enterprise is already installed, run the installer again with the smartcard option.