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Hi all.

I'm trying to set up this "USB over RDP", so Remote Desktop users are able to plug-in their USB devices on their RDP clients, and use it like it was plugged in to the RDP server directly.
I can't really find any good documentation on this subject, only the part where you can read about configuring it with vboxmanage.

I've succesfully created a USBfilter with this command: "vboxmanage usbfilters add 1 --target global --name "USB1" --action hold".
But it doesn't really react on anything...

Can anybody aid me here? Thx

Edit: Oh, and I use the PUEL version on a Windows 2003 server. Guest OS's are mainly Windows XP.

You are confusing usb on the Guest VM with usb via RDP, remote USB devices via RDP are limited by the RDP protocol and supported devices, there are commercial usb over lan solutions that do what you want via rdp.

vbox4me2 wrote:You are confusing usb on the Guest VM with usb via RDP, remote USB devices via RDP are limited by the RDP protocol and supported devices, there are commercial usb over lan solutions that do what you want via rdp.

hmm... This is from the frontpage under "About":

"USB over RDP. With this unique feature, a virtual machine that acts as an RDP server can still access arbitrary USB devices that are connected on the RDP client. This way, a powerful server machine can virtualize a lot of thin clients that merely need to display RDP data and have USB devices plugged in."

I still read this like the solution I am looking for. Is it just me who cant read?

From the manual

Accessing remote USB devices is only possible if the RDP client supports this extension.
VirtualBox includes a suitable RDP client for Linux, rdesktop-vrdp. Further
RDP clients running on other platforms will be provided in future VirtualBox versions.

Microsofts client doesn't support this.

sct_nicolaus wrote:I still read this like the solution I am looking for. Is it just me who cant read?

No I've seen this as well but its not 100% correct, it may be referring to rdp->vrdp, MS's rdp client does support this too but extreemly limited to almost useless.