usb serial peripheral to XP PC via iPhone ?

[macaron]

Hi,
I guess this one is a toughie:
I need to connect a portable USB serial peripheral (smart card reader) to a remote PC running XP which sees it as a COM port.
The easisestway to do this is to use a notebook running windows, through remote desktop.
I would like to spare buying an eeepc-like and use an iPhone instead.
Can you think of a hardware/software combination that would do the job?
Thank you in advance.

 

[Consultant]

You are not clear what you are asking.

iPhone has a remote desktop app called VNsea. You need to jailbreak it to install the app.

There is a card reader that works with iPods.

 

[macaron]

Dear Consultant,
I can rephrase my need :
I need to plug a standard USB peripheral into an iPhone by some way, (which has to power the device by the way), and make a remote PC think that it is a serial COM port directly connected to it.
This is not at all straightforward. It happens to work with the standard Microsoft Remote desktop Client, provided a driver called usbser.sys which maps USB devices to COM ports is installed, and using the "bring serial ports to remote" option.
I don't know if it works with Vnc or logmein, and I wonder if it is at all possible with an iPhone.
I expect answers from people who know what can and cannot be done with the docking port of the Iphone, and the serial port management of the iPhone OsX.

 

[The General]

Not possible.