How to install USB/IP for Windows on Server 2008 R2

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 ON

Restart 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