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Universal Serial Bus, an industry standard for serial communication.

The Universal Serial Bus is an industry standard for serial communication, defining:

  • connectors
  • protocols
  • cables

Originally developed to have a standard for connecting devices to computers.

More info on usb.org and wikipedia.

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Mac OS X server - cannot add devices to MDM server

Mac OS X 10.14.4 - Server 5.8 I am trying to add devices to the server to manage them, the server is set up, the certificates as well, the Trust profile and the enrollment profiles are set, but when i try to Enroll a device - either macOS or iOS, I…
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Dell PERC6i raid 0 single drive or USB 3.0 external, which will be faster for backups

I have an older Dell R710 for my personal home server with a pair of PERC6i raid cards in it. I have a drive array attached to one of them where the data lives on different RAIDs, the other PERC6 is attached to the R710's 8 drive bays. I'm…
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Moving BitLocker startup key from flash memory to USB key?

I'm experimenting with setting up our company laptops with Win7 and BitLocker. There's no TPM available so I'm using the USB startup key option. In my testing I put the encryption key on a MemoryStick flash card and it's working fine. To test test…
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X-Org Server - Identify USB Unplug event

In our X-Org server setup, if the server is running and we unplug the USB Mouse then the server doesn't really do anything (no errors or warnings.) If we replug the device, even then the server doesn't recognize that device is there now, since it…
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Cannot execute certain commands on SATA3 3.5" external USB disk

I mount a SATA3 3.5" disk with a USB to Sata3 cable. When I connect the disk, my CentOS7 recognize it: $ dmesg -T | grep USB ... [Mon Nov 5 14:38:36 2018] usb 2-5: new SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd [Mon Nov 5 14:38:37 2018] usb…
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Strange USB device connection messages on /var/log/messages on Centos 7.5

I am seeing some strange USB device connect and disconnect messages in a dedicated server running CentOS 7.5. These messages appear almost every day, but they do not appear at the same time every day. The time of the messages is random. I have…
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Keep keyboard alive when x server crashes

From time to time my Ubuntu desktop freezes. When this happens my usb keyboard and mouse stop responding so I can't get out to tty1 [ctrl][alt][f1] or do anything else from my input devices - also the lights on the kb & mouse go out suggesting that…
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How to monitor dm-crypt on unreliable external hard disk?

I have an external USB drive, which - for whatever reason - sometimes drops out unrecoverably. Probably due to faulty cables or something. On this I have a LUKS partition. dmesg reports Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 0, lost sync page…
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VPN access with Junos Pulse Linux client + eToken?

Does anyone know whether the Junos PulseSecure client for Linux (5.3+) can use a USB token for VPN authentication, e.g., via pkcs11? I'm using a SafeNet (Aladdin) eToken 5110 on Windows. My impression from trying the Linux client is that it doesn't…
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RS232 to USB extension cable to network configuration

I'm not sure this is the correct place for this question. I have a console cable to configure network devices like switches (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41LDstMTA5L.jpg) So, I want to make an extension cable with an RS232…
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Pause input counters incrementing when imaging a device through USB NIC

We keep running into issues with trying to image devices using a usb-e1000 NIC. It will get the OS on there, but then once that happens the "pause input" counter on the switch begins to increment and the imaging job fails out. This is when using a…
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Why does udevadm not provide me a disk serial number when hdparm can?

Compare: root@home:~# hdparm -I /dev/sdb | grep Serial Serial Number: WCJ025C8 Transport: Serial, ATA8-AST, SATA 1.0a, SATA II Extensions, SATA Rev 2.5, SATA Rev 2.6, SATA Rev 3.0 root@home:~# to: root@home:~# udevadm info -a…
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Active Directory USB access disobeying GPO

I am the administrator of a company and recently I created an Active Directory with Windows Server 2012 R2 and windows 7 computers as clients . I have a Group Policy on all users to disable usb storage…
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How to prevent access to USB (non storage) device for specific program in Windows?

I need to prevent access to one USB device in Windows Server 2008 so that certain application doesn't see it at all. The application runs as Windows service which can be started with specified user privileges. So hiding the USB device from user…
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Add Switchable Encrypted USB Backup Drive to Windows Server

So my boss has decided that she wants a backup USB drive for a Windows Server 2008, but it needs 2 features... HIPPA grade encryption. She wants it to be switchable. She wants 2 USB drives, one on her at all times and the other plugged in and…
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