Networked hard drive

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 15 March 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
> It is probably time to dig out the CD that came with the drive, and
> read the manual. 

No CD - and no manual!

> But looking at the reviews, Linux will probably 
> only be able to use it as a USB drive, and not a network drive. I
> find it interesting that only one machine can have write access at a
> time.
>
> I don't think you screwed too badly - the firmware is probably not
> on the drive, so the unit should still work. You may be limited to
> accessing the VFAT partition over the network from Windows, and you
> may end up having to make the VFAT partition the first partition. (I
> read that for MAC access, you need to use a FAT32 partition, and not
> a NTFS partition.) But unless someone decides to create a Linux
> driver for it, you are probably not going to be able to do network
> access from Linux.
>
It's not a waste of money.  It does work as a usb drive, and I can samba-share 
it, I would think - though I'll have to check that.  If not, being usb, we 
can physically move it around.

Serves me right.  I looked briefly at a drive that said it was set up to be 
used as NAS, but I feared having to spend a lot of time to get it to work 
with linux.  It never occurred to me that this would be at least as bad :-)

Ah well - lessons learned.

Anne