I have a Windows 7 machine that has a smart card reader. I have an application running on that machine that can successfully read the contents of the card.
I have another Windows 7 machine that I use to remote into the machine that has the smart card reader. When I am using the remote connection, the application can no longer access the smart card connected to the host machine. I understand that due to Remote Desktop redirection, I can only use smart card readers attached to the client machine.
Is it possible to turn off this redirection?
Solution:
Unfortunately it is not possible.
I have a similar problem and was looking for a solution. What I found was a thread on social.technet.microsoft.com, where it says:
[…] It’s not possible. If you are connected through RDP, then your session is redirected to the client machine and will not see readers connected to the RDSH.