[Samba] Sharing USB devices?

[Dr. Thomas Orgis]

Am Wed, 9 Feb 2022 13:13:01 -0500
schrieb Hal Vaughan via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>: 

> and then share the device node file in /dev over Samba.

Linux device nodes are just some kind of links that tell the system to
talk to the device of major number x and minor y. If you share such as
simple file over the network, it would translate to your client (if it
also works that way, at all) looking for device x:y _locally_.

AFAIR the Plan 9 project with the associated network protocol intended
to do more network transparency also of devices in the manner you
desire, but that's not what Samba does.

So I second the recommendations to set up a system that offers remote
desktop and file sharing on the dirty side and have the client with
display and human input on the other side.


Alrighty then,

Thomas

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Dr. Thomas Orgis
HPC @ Universität Hamburg