external storage for linux

[Phil Tann]

On Sunday 06 January 2008 11:28:06 David Vincent wrote:
> Phil Tann wrote:
> > another thing that I've found BRILLIANT is that it has 2 x USB 2.0 on the
> > back where you can plug in USB thumb drives and share them on the network
> > too, OR...
> > if you have USB hdd's you can plug them in and network them also.
>
> yeah i saw that on the site, awesome feature.  how does it work?  do you
> have to do anything on the clients to see them?  are they always shared
> with names like usb1/usb2?

They're shared by default but you can turn off access OR set it up so only 
specific users are able to access them, it's via the flash rom which you can 
eitehr enable or disable read for all of the drives by user account.

>
> hrm, any word on filesystem support?  you must be limited to fat16/32
> and ntfs since the minimum requirements are windows 2000/xp.
>
> -d

it does samba shares so you can access via windows, linux or BSD 

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