Hello all. Talking on a forum, an idea appeared: a driver to "export" an USB device on a LAN. A scenario could be a non-Linux-friendly printer that have to be placed physically near the Linux server, but must be accessible from a "distant" windoze machine.
IIUC, the "server" part is the simpler: a daemon that acquires access to the USB device and listens for network connections. IMO doable in userspace w/o too many troubles. The hard part is the client. If it uses libusb or any other library, that library could be modified to handle network access. But if it's closed source (like many windoze drivers) then the only way I could think is creating a "virtual hub" driver. This way no library should be modified, allowing greater flexibility. Does some1 know of something similar already done or simpler methods? Yes, I know there could be many problems (latency, bandwidth & so on), but atm they appear not too important. Tks, Diego. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
