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Posted: April 15 2008,21:16 QUOTE

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?
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Posted: April 15 2008,22:43 QUOTE

Yes, with either NFS or Samba.  Both are available as extensions.
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Posted: April 20 2008,09:24 QUOTE

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

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Posted: April 20 2008,10:13 QUOTE

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