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.
A fork of USB/IP client on Windows is located here. Getting this forked version to work with Windows Sever 2008 R2 is not straightforward. I have documented below how I was able to get it to work 2008 R2.
- Download 0.1.0 (https://github.com/cezanne/usbip-win/releases/tag/v0.1.0), download all into a directory excluding source*
- Remember to unblock the files
- Save to c:\usbip
- Download x64 build for Win7 (https://github.com/cezanne/usbip-win/files/4743857/usbip_vhci_v0.1.0_win7_x64.zip)
- Unblock the zip file
- Extract
- Copy the files and overwrite files in c:\usbip
Allow running non-validated driver
bcdedit.exe /set TESTSIGNING ONRestart computer
Import certificates manually
- Run mmc.exe
- File | Add/Remove Snap-in…
- In Available snap-ins, select Certificates
- In This snap-in will always manage certificates for: select Computer account
- In This snap-in will always manage: radio options, select Local computer: (the computer this console is running on)
- Click on OK
- Navigate to Certificates (Local Computer) | Trusted Root Certification Authorities | Certificates
- Do Actions | All Tasks | Import…
- Click Next
- In File name: Browse to C:\usbip\usbip_test.pfx
- In Password: type usbip
- In Certificate Store select Place all certificates in the following store
- Click Next
- Click Finish
- Click OK
- Verify USBIP Test Certificate is added
- Next add the certificate into Trusted Publishers, Navigate to Certificates (Local Computer) | Trusted Publishers
- Repeat steps 8 to 16
Install driver manually
- Open cmd.exe to c:\usbip
- Run pnputil -i -a usbip_vhci.inf
- Add legacy device manually, run devmgmt.msc
- Select root item (ComputerName) Do Action | Add legacy hardware
- In Welcome to the Add Hardware Wizard, click Next
- In What do you want the wizard to do? select Install the hardware that I manually select from a list (Advanced) then click Next
- In Common hardware types: select Show All Devices and hit Next
- In Select the device driver you want to install for this hardware, click Have Disk…
- In Install from Disk browse to c:\usbip
- In Model select USB/IP VHCI and hit Next
- In Hardware to install: hit Next
- Wait and hit on Finish
To list devices that can be attached
usbip list -r <ip>
usbip list -r 192.168.1.2
To connect to specific USB device
usbip attach -r <ip> -b <bus id>
For example, to connect to a USB device on bus 5-1 (from the command above), do:
usbip attach -r 10.223.22.154 -b 5-1
Related issues:
https://github.com/cezanne/usbip-win/issues/154
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