Fedora/Linux as a USB Drive

[Les Mikesell]

max wrote:
> Adalbert Prokop wrote:
>> Srikanth Konjarla wrote on Sunday 13 January 2008:
>>
>>  
>>> 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.
>>>     
>>
>> There are "laplink" cables for USB. They have two type A connectors 
>> and a piece of hardware between them, which acts as a USB network card 
>> to both ends. So you plug it in and get a new network interface (e.g. 
>> usb0).
>>
>> The rest is identical a normal network card - set IPs or let 
>> avahi-autoipd do the job and share your files over network.
>>
>> I seriously doubt there is a hardware and a driver which would do what 
>> you want. It would have to emulate a hard drive hardware and a file 
>> system whithin for your directory structure, not to mention the 
>> hardware part. I've never heard of something like this.
>>
>>   
> It sounds like what he wants is to connect two computers together with a 
> cable and have them treat one another like flash drives.

If the only purpose of the other computer is to give access to the 
drive, you can get inexpensive external drive cases with USB adapters 
that would make more sense.  If the other computer is doing something 
else, then you can use nfs between the linux systems on the same or a 
different network. Back-to-back USB<->network adapters would work but 
have no advantage over normal nics and probably take more CPU to drive.

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   Les Mikesell
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