Fedora/Linux as a USB Drive

[Srikanth Konjarla]

Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson írta:
>> Srikanth Konjarla wrote:
>>  
>>> Wondering if it is possible to access a Fedora/Linux machine as a USB
>>> drive. It would be very useful to transfer files between two computers
>>> without a network.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Srikanth
>>>
>>>     
>> I am not sure what you are saking. If you want to install Fedora to
>> a USB drive, and boot off that drive, this have been covered on the
>> list. I believe you still need to do an expert install to be able to
>> install to a USB drive, and you have to "tweak" the Grub settings,
>> but it works well as long as your machine can boot off a USB drive.
>> (I have a USB drive set up that way here.)
>>
>> If you are talking about attaching a USB hard drive to a Linux
>> machine, and transfering data to/from it, that works fine as well.
>>
>> Mikkel
>>   
> 
> I guess yout mean to connect two computers via a USB cable and "see"
> one of the machine ("slave") from the other ("master").
> I don't think you can find such a cable prefabricated and there's a reason.
> It wouldn't be a simple USB extender and the "USB host" hardware
> built into PCs aren't created to deal another "host" on the USB bus.
> Hint: the SCSI bus was created to deal with such a detail but Linux
> SCSI adapter drivers still don't support the target mode only the 
> initiator.
> 
> What would you want to see from the slave? Some exported FS?
> Way easier and cheaper to buy a crossover cable and learn how to setup
> your simple point-to-point network then e.g. Samba would autodetect
> the other host on the network.

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.

Srikanth
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