Hi Diego, you might want to take a look at the USB/IP project hosted at http://usbip.sourceforge.net/ It provides a virtual hub ("vhci") acting as client + a server, which both are *linux only* for now. I personally use it to facilitate reverse engineering of USB traffic between a proprietary windows driver and a USB device - but I have to use vmware to get USB traffic forwarded to the (virtual) windows machine. It even allows me to implement a simulated copy of a device in user-space and to create a device which I do not own myself. But that's going a bit off-topic now... For directly connecting to windows I also just found the products mentioned by Damjan. -Thomas
Diego Zuccato schrieb: > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
