Sharing a hard drive on a network

Forum: Networking
Topic: Sharing a hard drive on a network
started by: DER_METZGERMEISTER

Posted by DER_METZGERMEISTER on April 15 2008,21:16

I was thinking, can I use DSL to host a usb 2.0 external hard drive on my network by using an old computer with DSL on it?

Posted by Jason W on April 15 2008,22:43

Yes, with either NFS or Samba. Both are available as extensions.

Posted by curaga on April 20 2008,09:24

Both are huge CPU eaters though - ftp would be much better for an old comp, if you can manage with it

Posted by Juanito on April 20 2008,10:13

..or you could use Robert's suggestion for sshfs to mount a folder(s) and share it.