[ubuntu-users] Networking and USB

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 14:45:11 UTC 2009


On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Ted Hilts <thilts at mcsnet.ca> wrote:
> Norberto Bensa wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Ted Hilts <thilts at mcsnet.ca> wrote:
>>> Can a usb connected external (1) IDE drive, (2) SATA drive, or (3) FLASH
>>> memory card be set up to be a share (let's say on machine A) on the
>>> local LAN network and therefore accessible to read, write, and
>>> executeable operations by other machines on that network (let's say on
>>> machines B, C, and D) also providing their shares?
>>>
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> You mount the drive somewhere and share it thru samba, nfs, etc.
>>
>>
> Are you saying for example that on Linux Ubuntu machine A:
>
> 1. I mount a SATA drive , format that drive as ext3 by means of a live
> tools distribution like Knoppix or alternatively from the command line
> of machine A and then
>
> 2 .Modify the SAMBA smb.conf file to show the SATA drive as a Samba
> share and then do the terminal "testparm" command.
>
> 3, Then all machines on the same workgroup should be able to see the
> SATA drive as a share of machine A and there is no additional work or
> preliminary work and Ubuntu 8.4 will automatically through the USB
> connection determine the presence of the external SATA drive???
>
> 4. In addition, if a windows XP Home or XP PRO machine is mapped to this
> SATA drive which is externally connected to machine A then it should
> also be able to access that SATA drive as a share???

Ted - you're mixing your metaphors here so to speak.

Samba shares file systems.  It does not know or care how that file
system is provided.  eSata, USB or carrier pigeon....

Brian




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