How To Set Up A USB-Over-IP Server And Client With Ubuntu 10.04
 

http://static.howtoforge.com/images/teaser/ubuntu.gifHow To Set Up A USB-Over-IP Server And Client With Ubuntu 10.04

This tutorial shows how to set up a USB-over-IP server with Ubuntu 10.04 as well as a USB-over-IP client (also running Ubuntu 10.04). The USB/IP Project aims to develop a general USB device sharing system over IP network. To share USB devices between computers with their full functionality, USB/IP encapsulates "USB I/O messages" into TCP/IP payloads and transmits them between computers. USB-over-IP can be useful for virtual machines, for example, that don't have access to the host system's hardware - USB-over-IP allows virtual machines to use remote USB devices.



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