Although it’s best to share the port after plugging in the device, it’s fine to share the port up-front, as long as you know for sure which one’s free, and then connect your USB device to this port.
A shared USB scanner can’t be used on the machine that it’s plugged into directly.Things to consider when you share a USB scanner For example, on a Client machine you can install USB Network Gate on Linux, and on the Server PC – on Windows or the other way around. However, the Server and the Client PCs don’t necessarily have to run on the same OS. Note: at this point, we have three different versions of the application for Windows, Linux and Mac. USB Network Gate is only compatible with these Mac OS versions:
