The author has a USB device attached to a computer out in the shop and wants to use it from their office.
While they could use remote desktop, they prefer to use SSH for this kind of task.
The Linux command line tool USBIP can be used to transport a USB device over the network.
The server component of this setup needs the kernel modules usbip_core and usbip_host, as well as the daemon usbipd and the client component needs the vhci_hcd module and the control program usbip.
One USB device can be bound to the server and connected to by one client, but cannot be shared further while the server has it.
The author uses a Raspberry Pi as a USB server, for which the setup is easy.
On the server, modules are loaded with modprobe -a, and on the client with modprobe -a vhci_hcd, with the daemon run with sudo usbipd.
The device is then bound and connected with sudo usbip bind/attach -b busid.
