VirtualBox USB -- I've tried the fixes and it still doesn't work

[A-dogg]

Like the title says, I've added usbusers group, added the line

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0

to fstab, changed 40-permissions.rules to

# USB devices (usbfs replacement)
#SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device", MODE="0664"
SUBSYSTEM==”usb_device”, GROUP=”usbusers”, MODE=”0664′′

changed mountdevsubfs.sh to remove the #'s so it's

#
# Magic to make /proc/bus/usb work
#
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

(question -- should there be 2 dashes before rbind above? mine has two but most directions i've seen seem to show one... not sure if that matters...)

but it still won't work. xp will recognize new hardware and attempt to install it (sometimes successfully -- as far as it says), but the drives still don't show up in My Computer.

Any advice?

[fjgaude]

There should be two dashes infront of rbind. That's the only question I can answer because I use vmware server.

Happy New Year!

[rbprogrammer]

...
changed mountdevsubfs.sh to remove the #'s so it's

#
# Magic to make /proc/bus/usb work
#
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
...

just out of curiousity, did you remember to reboot after you modified mountdevsubfs.sh ?? i had to for mine to work..

[A-dogg]

90% sure I rebooted right after i made the change, but I've rebooted a number of times since then and nothing. It's weird, XP says it's installed the new hardware and recognized it, but it doesn't show up.

Oh, well... for now I've just created a shared folder and transfer stuff from my usb drive to linux to the shared folder and into xp. not that annoying.

happy new year back!

[50words]

I would really like to find the definitive fix, as I have had no luck with the "fixes," either, and I want to use USB software like my scanner through Windows XP on VirtualBox.

[Wiebelhaus]

I would really like to find the definitive fix, as I have had no luck with the "fixes," either, and I want to use USB software like my scanner through Windows XP on VirtualBox.

yea , this is asinine.