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Universal Serial Bus, an industry standard for serial communication.

The Universal Serial Bus is an industry standard for serial communication, defining:

  • connectors
  • protocols
  • cables

Originally developed to have a standard for connecting devices to computers.

More info on usb.org and wikipedia.

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External USB Fingerprint Reader for Pre-boot Authentication for Dell Laptop

My company just purchased several Dell Latitude E6500 laptops with docking stations and external monitors. These laptops have a fingerprint scanner located next to the keyboard. DOCKED users who prefer to use the included fingerprint scanner for…
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Share sheetfed scanner over network

Greetings, I have a problem with sharing of sheetfed scanner (Panasonic KV-S...). How can I network this type of USB device between multiple computers in our LAN? Our supplier recommends software tool USB to Ethernet Connector . Does anybody have…
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Some laptops USB not working on docking station

This is an odd one. I have two laptops (on an estate of 250) which won't recognise the USB ports on the docking station. Have swapped out hardware, and tried the disks in a new chassis and it is down to the disk. So far so normal - must be an OS…
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Having a hardware problem with USB & Keyboard on machine, need some ideas?

I would have posted this on superuser but I can't get into it since it is still in private beta. I have a Dell sc400 at a remote location running SBS 2003 that is having some issues. The usb ports don't work and the keyboard will not type the letter…
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ESX Unix guest & AnywhereUSB

We got a Nagios (FAN) VM within an ESXi little cluster (4 servers). I have to configure SMS alerts with Nagios, so I have to plug a phone via usb. Problem : I want my usb to be seen even if my VM switches of ESX (because a physical server is down,…
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Hyper-V - USB Disk mapped to VM

If I have a VM on a Hyper-V host with an IP 192.168.50.25 (VM IP), where the Host has an IP of 192.168.40.25. (The host itself has a virtual switch whose NIC patches into a procurve onto the VLAN 50.25) and a USB Drive connected to the Host, taken…
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Disable USB mass storage via group policy based on the time of day?

I would like to disable USB mass storage for a group of users during specific hours of the day (lets say, 9AM to 5PM). I know that with Windows Server 2008, there is a group policy that will disable USB storage at: \User…
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USB device not going through VM?

I have a server (we'll call it Server01, Win2008R2) that has a Virtual Environment (also a Win 2008R2 Environment) ran through Hyper-V. I have a program on the VM that needs an USB Device (it's actually a small USB scale). When plugging the USB…
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How to perform remote backups on a USB external drive?

I have a server hosting files (~300 Gb) and I need to perform a full backup every week on an exernal USB drive. People without good IT knowledge need to be able to do it too, so it has to be a very simple process with a GUI. The best thing would be…
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Group Policy Preference not applied automatically

DC - Windows Server 2008 R2 Client OS - Window XP I have applied USB block Group Policy Preference setting for Window XP ( i.e Registry setting & usbstor.inf, usbstor.pnf denied policy ). But one of the domain computer this policy was not applied.…
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Kickstart Installation from USB

My goal is to install Oracle Linux 6.3 from USB. My problem is when I copy DVD media to USB. The symlink file repodata is unable to create because the file system is FAT/FAT32. Below is the symlink detail. -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 196 Jun 26 2012…
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Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device in Debian

How do I mount a USB Mass Storage Device in Debian? The USB Stick is working on other computers. I have used dmesg which returned useful information about the USB Stick. It is attached to /dev/sdc. I tried to mount it using mount -t with different…
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USB Drive on Linux (Redhat Ent 5.3) appears to use up available space on my primary drive

I have about 3.6 'Terabyte' drive that is used for the root of the filesystem. When I look at the Disk Usage Analyzer, it shows that only about 1 'Terabyte' of that space is used. I have a 2 Terrabyte USB drive that is mounted to /media/disk. …
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USB access from switch

Currently, I have a network setup that kind of duct-taped together. I have A.) The wireless DSL modem with four ethernet ports and a USB 2.0 port B.) The wireless router with four ethernet ports and a USB 3.0 port C.) The 25 port switch to which…
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Configure the UPS apcupsd demon to run a script?

I have a ups connected to a Linux server with a usb cable, i installed apcupsd demon and i was wondering how to instruct it to run a shell script i created when a special condition occurs? i.e. the battery is 25% percent or the time left is 10…
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