[X2Go-User] Forward local USB device

[Stefan Baur]

Am 09.01.2017 um 12:24 schrieb Bernhard Mayr | elexis-austria:

> I am looking for a solution to forward a local USB Device to the server. I would like to the local chipcard (not a sd-card!) reader by applications running on the server. Is there an easy way to manage this task?

(I should really turn this into a FAQ some time soon, as this question
keeps popping up about once or twice a year since 2012 ...)

There is no USB forwarding support, because no volunteer coder has
stepped up to code one in their free time, and so far no one wants to
pay for the development costs either.

At present, we support printing, audio, and file sharing - that's it.

If you want a timely solution, your best bet is paying one or more
developers to integrate code from http://usbip.sourceforge.net/ into
X2Go.  Note, however, that the Windows client side of that tool hasn't
been updated since 2011, so there's no guarantee it will work out of the
box on Windows 8/8.1/10.  Also, they do not seem to support macOS at
all, at the moment - and any USB over IP support we ship, we should ship
for all three major operating systems.

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Kind Regards,
Stefan Baur

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