Ethernet external HardDisk.

[Brian McKee]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Felipe DOMINGUEZ
<felipe.dominguez at gmail.com> wrote:
> "An NDAS partition can only be mounted r/w from ONE Linux machine at a time,
> the rest of the machines may only use it in ro mode."
>
>  I find it unbelievable.  The only reason I bought an Ethernet hard disk was
> to be able to use it from multiple computers in read write mode. I think I
> will have to buy a new one.
>
> My question is: Would I have the same problem if I buy a external hard disk
> which does not need the NDAS  driver?
> Could  any one recommend me  a brand?
> What should I look at so that I do not have this problem agaion?
> Is it there any directory where we can check if a piece of hardware is linux
> compable, or where we can see other people opinion on devices?

While I know nothing about NDAS, (another thing on my list to learn) I
think what you want is a small NAS box that exports files via NFS
and/or SMB/CIFS.

There are lots of options in this space, many of them linux powered
underneath the covers.  I can't recommend a specific model or brand as
I haven't owned any of them except an Apple Time Capsule (which you
DONT want), but I know Linksys and D-Link among many others make them.

If space and power considerations aren't paramount to you, you could
also consider sharing a hardddrive from a 'real' linux PC either using
a full distro install or one of the custom built distributions for the
task like freenas or openfiler.  Google linux NAS distro for more
links than you need.

HTH
Brian