When a virtual machine is running, its window is the active window. If you plug a USB device into the host system, the device connects to the virtual machine instead of the host by default. If a USB device connected to the host system does not connect to a virtual machine at power on, you must manually connect the device to the virtual machine.When you connect a USB device to a virtual machine, Workstation Pro retains the connection to the affected port on the host system. You can suspend or power off the virtual machine, or unplug the device.
When you plug in the device again or resume the virtual machine, Workstation Pro reconnects the device. Workstation Pro retains the connection by writing an autoconnect entry to the virtual machine configuration (.vmx) file.If Workstation Pro cannot reconnect to the device, for example, because you disconnected the device, the device is removed and Workstation Pro displays a message to indicate that it cannot connect to the device.
You can connect to the device manually if it is still available. To manually connect a USB device to the virtual machine, select VM Removable Devices Device Name Connect (Disconnect from host).Follow the device manufacturer's procedures for unplugging the device from the host computer when you physically unplug the device, move the device from host system to a virtual machine, move the device between virtual machines, or move the device from a virtual machine to the host computer. Following these procedures is especially important for data storage devices, such as zip drives.
If you move a data storage device too soon after saving a file and the operating system did not actually write the data to the disk, you can lose data.When a particular USB device is connected to a virtual machine for the first time, the host detects it as a new device named VMware USB Device and installs the appropriate VMware driver.You can disable the autoconnect feature if you do not want USB devices to connect to a virtual machine when you power it on.On Linux hosts, Workstation Pro uses the USB device file system to connect to USB devices. If the USB device file system is not located in /proc/bus/usb, you must mount the USB file system to that location.To connect USB human interface devices (HIDs) to a virtual machine, you must configure the virtual machine to show all USB input devices in the Removable Devices menu.To install a PDA driver in a virtual machine, you must synchronize the PDA with the virtual machine.
When connecting a new USB device to the computer, Windows automatically detects the device and installs an appropriate driver, which means that the user can almost immediately use a connected USB drive or device. In some organizations, the use of USB-devices (flash drives, USB HDDs, SD cards and so on) is blocked for security reasons to prevent security leakage of confidential data and the penetration of viruses into the internal corporate network. This article describes how to use the Group Policy (GPO) to disable external removable USB-drives, them from data writing or running executable files. In Windows XP Group Policies you can’t restrict access to external USB devices: to block access to external media, administrators had to use third-party tools, or to prevent certain device drivers (UsbStor, Cdrom, Flpydisk, Sfloppy) from running (using the value 0 of the parameter Start in the registry key HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServices). However, since 2014, and today it is quite rare in corporate networks. Configuring GPO to Block USB drives and other External Storage DevicesWe are going to restrict the use of USB-drives for all computers in a certain AD container (OU). You can apply the USB block policy to the entire domain, but this will affect the servers and other technological devices.
Let’s assume that we want to apply the policy to OU named Workstations. To do it, open the GPO management console ( gpmc.msc), right-click on OU Workstations and create a new policy ( Create a GPO in this domain and Link it here.).
Hi!Does “Network Discovery” whether On or Off! Apply to Folders and/ or Files within one’s USB/ Flash Drive, or just Folders and/ or Files within one’s Hard Drive? And if the answer be the latter, then how can Folders and/ or Files within one’s USB/ Flash Drive be shielded from EXTERNAL NETWORK DISCOVERY (i.e., EXTERNAL to one’s LOCALLY NETWORKED computer/ computers) when one is interprocessing data between one’s USB/ Flash Drive and one’s Hard Drive, or between another LOCALLY CONNECTED USB/ Flash Drive, or other USBs/ Flash Drives connected to one’s LOCALLY NETWORKED computer/ computers?