Cash Drawers

[Lerebours, Jose]

Howdy!

Working on a project where cash drawers will be
used.  I have not worked with these since for
ever ...

Situation:
 - Server in HQ
 - Two or more work station per remote site
 - At least one cash drawer per site
 - Using thin clients (MaxSpeed)
 - Connecting to server via VPN through www

Question:
 How could one open cash drawer from server
 running filePro application?

The last time I worked with this it was easy,
I just had to send a CR to local serial port
and drawer opened.  This was simple since the
drawer was attached to serial port on dumb
terminal and output was sent to local.

This time around, I am facing a totally new
scenario, specially since I will have two
stations sharing one cash drawer.

I have thought of using cash drawer as a printer
on remote site and using 'netcat' to open the
drawer.  Now, the question would then be, what
drawer could I use for this?  The way I figure,
it would have to be parallel or USB based, so I
could use print server and easily hit drawer from
filePro application.

Any suggestions on method and/or which drawer to 
use will be appreciated.

Thank you all in advance!


Jose Lerebours