USB Network Gate is a solution which allows sharing any number of USB ports and devices on your computer over LAN/WAN/VLAN/VPN/Internet. Remote virtual machines can connect to your computer (server) and communicate with USB devices, plugged into shared remote ports, as if those devices were connected directly to virtual machines. All applications that work with remote USB devices won't see the difference and will treat them as local ones.
As USB Network Gate for Windows/Linux shares USB ports, not devices themselves, you can plug any USB device into shared USB port, then unplug this device and plug in another one, and it will automatically appear at the remote virtual machine without any additional configuration.
Currently, 3 versions of the product are available: for Windows, Linux and Mac. Different combinations of server-client model can be applied, for example, client may have USB Network Gate installed on Linux, and server - on Windows, or vice versa.
With USB Network Gate for Windows/Linux you can:
- Share USB devices on the local PC (server) so that they become available for usage on the remote PC (client)
- Share any number of USB devices
- Freely unplug USB device and plug in another one into shared USB port on the server - the device will automatically appear on the client
- Give custom names to your USB devices (label them) to let clients easily identify them
- Create callback connection (connection with a client initiated from the server side) - OEM License
- Set authorization password and enable traffic encryption
- Change traffic encryption, authorization settings and custom names on the go for already shared devices (Linux version)
- Disable current connection from the server side
- Access remote shared USB devices from virtual machine, remote desktop or blade server
- Access remote shared USB devices via Wi-Fi
- Two types of connection with remote devices are available: "Connect" and "Connect once", the latter allowing client to establish one-time connection without attempts to restore it if broken
- See who currently occupies shared USB device from other clients' side
Features list:
- USB devices can be shared on the server and subsequently accessed remotely by clients over LAN/WAN/VLAN/VPN/Internet
- Any number of clients can connect to remote shared USB devices
- Server and Client are handy combined into a single application
- No need to change existing network configuration to share and access USB devices
- No system reboot is required after USB ports sharing/unsharing
- Possibility to specify TCP port which will be used in connection
- All actions performed by the program are monitored and logged into Activity log
- Special icons assigned to USB devices let you know their statuses (shared, authorization is used)
- USB v1.1 and v2.0 compatible. USB v3.0 support
- OHCI, UHCI and EHCI standards for USB are supported
- Fully compatible with Hyper-Threading Technology and multiprocessor platforms
- Works on virtual machines (VMware, VMware ESX Server, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V support)
- Works in RDP session
