Re: Miniport driver

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From: Calvin Guan (cguan_at_pleasenospam.ati.com)
Date: 03/04/05

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    Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:28:48 -0500

    I guess the OP wants to remote everything in addition to printer. He will
    have to roll his own usbport/hci/hub. A interesting project though. 

    -- 
Calvin Guan  Software Engineer/Radeon NT Drivers
ATI Technologies Inc. Markham ON, Canada www.ati.com
"Maxim S. Shatskih" <maxim@storagecraft.com> wrote in message
news:eEgZmRPIFHA.2420@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>     Why not use some well-known remote printer protocol like "lpd" instead
of
> full USB emulation over the network?
>
> -- 
> Maxim Shatskih, Windows DDK MVP
> StorageCraft Corporation
> maxim@storagecraft.com
> http://www.storagecraft.com
>
> "Kim Povlsen" <kim@kimpix.dk> wrote in message
> news:ewtgs3KIFHA.1996@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > Well.. it doesnt really have to act as a device for itself. What I'm
making
> > is a remote USB protocol. Where you can attach a USB-device (i.e. a
printer)
> > to a different computer in your LAN network. And through some
application
> > network software be able to see this printer as it was plugged directly
into
> > your own computer. So it's more like a redirector driver, which
redirects
> > all memory to the other computer through the network.
> > So the first problem is how to make the PNP-manager in my system to
believe
> > that I plugged in the usb-printer to my own computer.
> >
> > /Kim
> >
> > "Stephan Wolf [MVP]" <stewo68@hotmail.com> skrev i en meddelelse
> > news:a38g2118sqk1shvkc5ebvf9s7pppsa1sap@4ax.com...
> > >I think it is possible to add virtual USB devices, but it is a rather
> > > complicated task to write such a driver. IIRC, that would require your
> > > driver to be both a WDM bus and a WDM function driver. Not sure if I
> > > fully understand the underlying mechanisms here, though.
> > >
> > > As already suggested, Walter Oney's book should give you some hints,
> > > see e.g.
> > >
> > > http://www.oneysoft.com/
> > >
> > > See also
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode/msg/70c02023e6a1f6f8
> > >
> > > Stephan
> > > ---
> > > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 20:00:45 +0100, "Kim Povlsen" <kim@kimpix.dk>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >>Hi
> > >>
> > >>Would it be possible to emulate a usb hardware device by using a
miniport
> > >>driver in the usb stack? (so the OS would believe that a hardware
device
> > >>was
> > >>plugged into it's usb-hub).
> > >>I have looked for docs og samplecode for this. But with no luck.
> > >>
> > >>/Kim
> >
> >
>
>
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