How to share an USB device(scanner) over network (from Win to Ubuntu)?

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Published on 2011-02-20T11:08:58Z Indexed on 2011/02/20 15:32 UTC
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Hi!

I have a special thing: I want to share my scanner over the network. The scanner is connected to a Win7 machine, but I want to use it from Ubuntu 10.04...

I found some methods:

  • USB over Network - it can handle Linux > Windows; and Windows > Windows it has Windows (and Win CE) & Linux server, but it has only Windows client, their Linux client is coming soon - that's a drag :( - it is not free, but what uses Windows, what is free?

  • USBip - to Linux > Linux, it is free, and nice

I'm looking for the other way, what can handle Win > Linux thing... I prefer free things, but that thing is maybe not free...

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