At our USB hub (with 5 ports) a dongle is connected to a particular application, this works (virtual Windows Server 2003). Now I wanted to plug into this USB hub, the dongle B and connect it to another application which is running on another virtual server (Windows Server 2008 R2). I’ve installed all the drivers, but it does not appear, non device found :-(. What am I doing wrong? What I have to do, so that it works correctly?
Thanks for your help
Hello. You can take “virtual” out of the picture, because from a 30K foot view, it’s really the same thing as if you were on two physical systems.
Your Windows Server 2003 will have to “disconnect” from the AnywhereUSB and then you must go to the Windows Server 2008 system and “connect”. Of course, wherever these virtual systems reside (on the same PC?), they/it must all be on the same subnet as the AWUSB, or else proper measures be taken to allow port forwarding from the device.
The only extra step which must be taken on the virtual Windows Server 2008 would be to “attach” the AnywhereUSB USB device to the virtual machine.
Hello, FYI - I was just told that the AnywhereUSB14 is the only device which has Multi Host capability. In that case, you wouldn’t need to disconnect. Since you have the AnywhereUSB5, this means you will have to disconnect/connect as described in the previous post. I hope this helps, thanks.
Thank you very much!
Multiple host PCs can “take turns” connecting to the AnywhereUSB, however they cannot be connected to the AnywhereUSB simultaneously.
The AnywhereUSB/14 (P/N AW-USB-14) and the AnywhereUSB/5M (P/N AW-USB-5M-W) are currently the only models that offers the Multi-Host Connections (MHC) feature, which allows multiple host PCs to connect to the AnywhereUSB/14 or AnywhereUSB/5M at the same time. With those models in particular, each host PC may be connected to one or more USB ports. Note, however, that multiple host PCs cannot “share” any of the same USB ports / USB devices.
You can create groups and connect to the different host machines.
If 10 pc’s are connected to 10 different ports then, they can access their 10 different AUSB ports at the same time.
For example, let’s say we have PC 1 to PC 10. PC1 connects to AUSB port 1, PC 2 connects to AUSB port2, PC3 connects to AUSB port3 and so on…
All the PCs can access their AUSB ports at the same time. But PC1 and PC2 cannot connect to AUSB port 1 at the same time
In general only one computer can connect to one USB port and/or multiple USB ports but, multiple computers cannot share a single USB port in AnywhereUSB.
In your case, you can connect Multiple host to AUSB by creating a groups, say you have created group 1 for primary server and connected to group1 and other ports are assigned to other groups. once the Primary server goes down the secondary server can be able to connect to AUSB like before but cannot connect to group1 as it is still connected to primary server, you need to disconnect first and then can be able to access the group.