[SOLVED] Vmware Server 1.0.4 not picking Printer as USB peripheral in Gusty

[ashishgoel]

Hi all,

I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 recently from 7.04 and as there is no support from the Ubuntu Community(The program not available in Add/Remove and also not in Automatix) for Vmware Server, I installed latest VMware Server directly. Everything is working fine after some tweaking but the server is not recognizing my attached Canon MP110 printer as USB peripheral because of which I'm not able to use it with the Guest operating system(WinXP). The printer is working fine in the Ubuntu 7.10 installation and had no problem in 7.04 version with Vmware Server 1.0.3.

Please help

Thanx



Solution No.1

SOLVED

Please open the following file: /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh by following command - gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh

Find the following lines:
#mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
#domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644
#ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
#mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb


Unmark them so that look like this:
mkdir -p /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs
domount usbfs "" /dev/bus/usb/.usbfs -obusmode=0700,devmode=0600,listmode=0644
ln -s .usbfs/devices /dev/bus/usb/devices
mount --rbind /dev/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb

Restart and your usb devices will be recognised


Solution No. 2 (Thanx to Jome2)

The problem with Workstation can be resolved by:
sudo mount -t usbfs none /proc/bus/usb/