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
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