USB devices not recognized over Mint cinamon 18.3

[siawacsh]

I am running windows 7 Home Premium using Virtualbox version 5.1.38 for Ubuntu on Linux Mint 18.3. I am trying to get USB devices to be recognized. Here are the steps I have followed thus far without success

In my native system under users and groups I clicked on users tab and added vboxusers. There was no option to do this under users.

I restarted VB and my native linux.

Then I started VB under devices I added insert guest additions CD image. This only offers an option to download guest additions. Once that is done, I go to devices, usb, usb settings. All the options in that is grayed out. When I restart the system I still cannot get VB to detect usb devices. Obvious the native linux system can recognize my usb devices.

I would appreciate your help.

siawacsh

[socratis]

Please read the following thread: USB basics and troubleshooting, all of the posts.

If you still have a problem after reading through the whole thing, please follow the advice of the last post, #8: Asking for help and post the information requested.


PS. I deleted your duplicate post. According to the forum rules, duplicate posts are not allowed. It's not good etiquette...