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Anybody have a recommendation for a free (ideally FOSS), cross-platform program that can forward USB devices over the network? Something you tried and which is actually working? I'd like to plug my USB scanner into my home Linux server and use it on my Windows 10 desktop.

@natanji
It is called USBIP and there is a Linux server and clients for different operating systems.

@txt_file Did you try that out? Because I found that on Google too, but there seems like it doesn't work at all. Can only find compiled Windows binaries for different/incompatible versions than what is available for Linux.

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@natanji
Tried it a couple years ago. With an AVM FritzBox as server and the AVM driver for Windows on a WinDOS XP notebook.