Les Mikesell wrote:
max wrote:
Adalbert Prokop wrote:
Srikanth Konjarla wrote on Sunday 13 January 2008:
I have the network setup currently to share the files between several
Linux machines and one WindowZe machine. But, i am looking to get two
linux machines connected together with a USB cable that is independent
of the network.
There are "laplink" cables for USB. They have two type A connectors
and a piece of hardware between them, which acts as a USB network
card to both ends. So you plug it in and get a new network interface
(e.g. usb0).
The rest is identical a normal network card - set IPs or let
avahi-autoipd do the job and share your files over network.
I seriously doubt there is a hardware and a driver which would do
what you want. It would have to emulate a hard drive hardware and a
file system whithin for your directory structure, not to mention the
hardware part. I've never heard of something like this.
It sounds like what he wants is to connect two computers together with
a cable and have them treat one another like flash drives.
If the only purpose of the other computer is to give access to the
drive, you can get inexpensive external drive cases with USB adapters
that would make more sense. If the other computer is doing something
else, then you can use nfs between the linux systems on the same or a
different network. Back-to-back USB<->network adapters would work but
have no advantage over normal nics and probably take more CPU to drive.
I have three such external hard drives that i use between Linux boxes. I
guess the idea of using just a USB cable to mount other linux machine
came from the new audio/video device Archos 605 which i got very
recently. Unlike iPod this device has lot more intelligence built in the
device which is capable of auto mounting the external USB devices at
the same time the device can be mounted to a machine (Linux/Mac/Win) via
USB. So, i was wondering if it is possible to mount a Linux machine from
another Linux machine via USB. BTW, the Archos runs Linux on it.
Srikanth
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