[Samba] Sharing USB devices?

[Peter Milesson]

On 10.02.2022 19:43, Hal Vaughan via samba wrote:
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>> On Feb 10, 2022, at 4:33 AM, Dr. Thomas Orgis via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
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>> Am Wed, 9 Feb 2022 13:13:01 -0500
>> schrieb Hal Vaughan via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>:
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>>> 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_.
> Rephrasing - could you please tell me if I’m saying this correctly? Trying to be sure I get it.
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> So a node device points at something specific on the system. If I shared one on System A and used it on System B, then System B would interpret it as pointing to something on System B - it wouldn’t relate it at all to anything on System A.
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> Is that correct.
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>> 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.
> Thank you. I’ll look into that.
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>> 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.
> I’m considering that. I still have a fair amount to research on RMP for that. (For instance, how to stream the screen contents when there’s no monitor on the server.)
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> Thank you.
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> Hal
Hi Hal,

I use x2go for remote desktop under Linux. Much better than VNC. x2go 
uses ssh, it's secure and has got very good performance, depending on 
which compression you choose.

Best regards,

Peter