On 12 juin, 12:00, David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 12 June 2007, Lethal Possum wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > I have a pretty simple question but so far I have not been able to > > find the answer on the Net. I have a file server running Debian (etch) > > that I currently connect to with samba. It is great but I would also > > like to be able to simply plug my laptop into the server with a USB > > cable and see the server as a mass storage device. I don't see any > > major issue with this solution so I guess it is feasible. Does anyone > > ever tried to setup something like that? > > > Thanks in advance for your suggestions. > > > Thomas > > Yes, but most server hardware USB ports are the host end, not the device > end. There are some USB chips that can be either, but they are generally > found on embedded boards rather than ordinary PC motherboards. You need > to look for USB Gadget support in the kernel. If you look at the NSLU2 > support you will find that it does exactly this. > > An alternative is to use Ethernet connectivity, and use iSCSI or ATA over > Ethernet(AoE). That way you do not need any special hardware but > if your Ethernet is slow you will notice it both in terms of access speed > to the disk and the available bandwidth for other network applications. > AoE is available in the current kernels, I am not quite sure about iSCSI, > but there is a project at open-iscsi.org which has all the code. > > David > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi David, I had no idea that there was different types of USB controllers. I will check but I am sure my motherboard only has the usual host controllers. So I didn't check out the whole NSLU2 documentation yet but do you mean that the USB Gadget support in the kernel allows a work around the type of controller I have? Many thanks, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
