Questions tagged [usb]
Universal Serial Bus, an industry standard for serial communication.
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Keeping USB backup drive from sleeping while mounted?
Once every few days, seemingly at random, our backup to an external USB hard disk fails on our hp DL380 G5 server running CentOS 6.4 64-bit. If I cd /mnt/backup and run ls it complains ls: reading ...
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ESXi 5.5 Configuration Not Saved After Reboot
I just installed a new copy of ESXi 5.5 onto a USB (32GB) stick and am trying to set up the configuration. However, when I reboot the server the cahnges I made to configuration like Ip's SSH settings ...
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Why is there no (Debian) init.d script for usbipd? Should I write my own?
I just installed the usbip package on my Debian Wheezy (7.1) . For some reason, it comes without an init.d script.
Why is there no init.d script for it?
Should I roll out my own? Or am I doing ...
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User's printer switches almost daily between USB002 and USB003
I have a user with a Dell Latitude D620 with a simple Dell dock in her office. She has a Brother MFC-7860DW printer connected to a USB 2.0 port on the dock.
Often (possibly 3x a week) she will come ...
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Kickstart based installation of RHEL 6.4 from USB
I want to setup some brand new servers with RHEL 6.4. Servers do not have DVD, so, I have to use USB for the installation.
I already have a custom ISO with a kickstart file that I use on servers with ...
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Clone multiple USB drives at once [closed]
I need to clone about 1>100usb drives. Is there any tool or way to clone a few at a time.
Thank you
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USB Device With Embedded Fileserver
I'm attempting to access logs from a proprietary hardware box with no reasonable hope of modifying the software. There is a process on the device to dump log files to a flash drive on the USB port ...
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Kickstart: ifcfg-eth0 file genorated by kickstart when install from network but from initrd when install form USB
When I install Fedora 19 with a kickstart file and via network, the generated ifcfg-eth0 file is genorated by the kickstart:
# Generated by parse-kickstart
However if I use the same kickstart file ...
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Creating bootable Fedora USB with persistent storage
I am attempting to burn the full Fedora 19 x86_64 DVD iso to a USB drive and have a separate partition on it for a kickstart file / other media that will be installed in the kickstart process.
With ...
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Kickstart installation from USB -- Kickstart location
After managing to get a Fedora ISO to rebuild successfully (for a USB stick) after adding a kickstart file (https://serverfault.com/questions/548405/), I now have an issue with locating the kickstart ...
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Rebuild Fedora 19 ISO adding Kickstart for USB install
I am attempting to edit a Fedora 19 DVD ISO to add a kickstart file. I then need this ISO burnt to a USB stick for instillation.
The error I get when booting is
Warning: Could not boot.
Warning: /...
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How can I disable USB removable devices except mouse and keyboard [closed]
I am the owner of a small company (4 employees) and I have Win 7 Ultimate on my machine. My other PCs are connected via LAN and they too have Windows 7 on their machine. My question is, is there any ...
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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 ...
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Xen USB pass through
Running the Xen (Debian). I want to access the iKey USB dongle from Windows DomU. I have 2 PCI:
lspci:
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Lynx Point USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
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Disable all USB devices but keyboard/mouse/flash-drive
For security reasons, I would like to make sure no USB device can be connected to my servers running RHEL3 except keyboards, mice and flash drives. To sum up :
What should work :
Mouse
Keyboard
USB ...
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Alternatives to rdiff-backup that work well with USB drives?
Here's the problem in a nutshell. We need to backup some SVN repositories, Samba shares, /home directories, postgresql nightly backups, etc. But the results are going to be written out to external ...
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Using Serial to RJ45 cable to connect to a 3Com switch
I have always use a serial to serial port or serial to usb to connect to switches. Normaly they came with RJ45 to usb cable in cases when I had a RJ45 cable to serial. But now I have 3Com switch ...
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Intel server board boot menu [closed]
I have a intel board SE7520BD2 with AMIBIOS 2003 with a raid controller SRCZCRX and I need to boot it from my pen drive.
As I have problems in the RAID disks it already booted once from my usb, but I ...
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ESX Unix guest & AnywhereUSB [closed]
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 ...
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hp DL380 G4 won't boot with disk plugged into front USB
We outgrew a few older external USB backup drives, and purchased WD My Passport 1 TB USB 3.0 drives to replace them.
When they are plugged into the front of our G4, it will blink forever after the ...
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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....
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What might cause DIR $file to report "File not found" when DIR $dir shows the same file just fine?
I can DIR a file and it doesn't exist, but DIRing its directory, or a file in the same directory as it, works fine.
Is this a hardware or software problem? If it's hardware, is it the drive or ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Connecting a usb external drive in NFS to a different server [closed]
I have two unix CentOS servers in the same farm. One of them has an usb HD connected. I would like to access the same usb HD from the second server (I want to be able to write directly to that HD). ...
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Change USB device owner
I have a USB printer that when I connect to the computer it's owned by the user root and the group lp, and it's file permission is rw-rw----, so I have to print via apache/php script. To solve this ...
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ProLiant ML110 G7 Access Bios with USB Control Disable
I have a server ProLiant ML110 G7, and need to access the bios on it. The problem is the USB ports are disabled. How can I access it?
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USB-drive goes to "sleep"
We have a temporary training envirnoment consisting of two identical (bar the names) 2003 domains. Second server in each domain is the handling the backup with Symantec BackupExec 2010. We are using ...
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How to enable USB access blocked using group policy [closed]
My USB Access is blocked using Group Policy.
How can I enable it? I am using Windows XP professional 2002
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How can I monitor if an external USB drive gets disconneted from a server?
I have a few servers that rely on external USB drives for some of their backup scripts. However, there have been times when the USB drive might get disconnected accidentally (upon reboot or power ...
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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 ).
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assign a USB to KVM virtual machine centos 5.8
can any one advice how to assign a USB to a guest based on KVM and host is centos 5.8 64-bit ?
when i tried with gui using virt-manager -> add physical device-> usb i got all usb like null
despite ...
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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 ...
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How can I setup PCI passthrough for my HighPoint 1144A USB 3.0 card under ESXi 5.1?
I have an Apple Mac Pro (MacPro5,1) running VMware ESXi 5.1.0 (799733) with a HighPoint RocketU 1144A USB 3.0 PCI-express card installed. Given that VMware ESXi 5.1 doesn't support USB 3.0 for host-...
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Mounting a USB Mass Storage Device in Debian [closed]
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.
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Snapshot copy a VM to USB attached to ESXi 5.1 host
I was trying to script a snapshot backup of running VMs to a USB drive attached to the host. We are using the free hypervisor version of ESXi and do not want to purchase 3rd party products to do this.
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Fixing USB disk mount point in Fedora 18
I use Bacula for my backups, with data spooled to one of two USB drives (the other is stored off site, and they get swapped occasionally). Currently these drives are labelled BACKUP5 and BACKUP6.
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rsync from linux host to fat32
i like to backup my linux based NAS (small files like picutres) to an attached USB Disk with FAT32.
For this i like to use rsync.
I know, that this will not work correct per default. rsync will sync ...
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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 ...
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How to mount USB on ESXi 4.1?
This is what I tried but it doesn't work :
Connect with SSH
# /etc/init.d/usbarbitrator stop
# fdisk -l |grep Disk
Disk /dev/disks/mpx.vmhba40:C0:T0:L0: 4022 MB, 4022337024 bytes
# ls /dev/disks/mpx....
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KVM USB Passthrough and Zydas usb wireless adapter: device or resource busy
i'm tring to setup a kernel testing virtualmachine for a 80211 module.
i start my machine with this command:
kvm -m 512 -net nic -net vde -usb -usbdevice host:0ace:1215 ktesting.img
i set up a kvm ...
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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 ...
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CentOS /dev/bus/usb structure
On my Ubuntu 12.04 when I plug in usb device, under dev directory tree usb device is added like this:
/dev/bus/usb/001/001
On my CentOS 5 added like below:
/dev/bus/usb/devices/2-1.4/
lsusb needs ...
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usb_modeswitch not switching
After I upgraded from kernel 2.6.18 to 3.5.3 modeswitch started not to work for me. Although lsusb shows my usb modem, usb_modeswitch does not switch it. My system information is like below. I ran ...
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Does disabling a USB port stop power from being provided on pins 1/4?
This is hopefully a simple question. When you disable a USB port at the BIOS level, or if it is disabled by group policy/at the OS level, does it still provide the +5VDC power on pin 1? I ask because ...
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Configuring Backup Exec 2012 using USB hard drives as media
I have found some information on this but have not found the exact answers to these questions.
Background
I have installed backup exec 2012 (with agents for databases)
I have configured a storage ...
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WinXP How to Tunnel LPT over USB [closed]
I have a windows program that accesses a device connected to a LPT (1-3) 25 pin port. The communication is bidirectional, and I suspected the control lines are also accessed directly.
I would like ...
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udev only reports events for a USB device configuration, not for the USB device itself
I'm trying to execute a certain Python script on USB devices insertion. I need to handle all kinds of USB devices. I'm using a rule like this:
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", RUN+="/......
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Dell PowerEdge SC1425 - Boot Error from USB
I'm new to hosting, and I got my first server a couple of days ago, and am having troubles.
I'm trying to boot Ubuntu Server 12.04 from a USB Device I have, and when I attempt to boot, I get "Boot ...
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