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roybfr
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USB Manangment is Disabled in View Client

I am having issues enabling USB pass through between a Windows XP based terminal & a VM being accessed through View. When I go to click on the "Connect USB Device" option of the View Client tool bar there is a messaged that states "USB Manangment is Disabled".Running version 4.01of both the client & agent. Usb options are installed with both as well. I checked in MS GPMC and made sure 23XXXXXX was in the USB authorize table.

I am stupmed at this point, don't see others having the same issue so I have to be missing something easy.

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Is there any policy configured in the View Administrator which prohibits the use of USB?

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AGratefulDad
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Do you have the USB Controller installed in the VM?

Go to your VC Server and ensure that you have the USB Controller installed under Edit Settings

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roybfr
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I have the USB controller installed, made sure it is seen by Xp, & have even rebooted since the install, but still get the "USB Manangement is disable".

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Is there any policy configured in the View Administrator which prohibits the use of USB?

Regards,

Christoph

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AndreTheGiant
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Be sure that usb driver is installed on your VMs.

If not copy the usbd.sy_ file from the Windows XP ISO to the VM.

For 32-bit:

cp <ISO-image>\i386\usbd.sy_ \windows\system32\drivers

For 64-bit:

cp <ISO-image>\amd64\usbd.sy_ \windows\system32\drivers

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roybfr
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This was the issue. Not sure how I missed it in View Manager before but thanks for the help

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