Yaacov Fenster - System Engineering Troubleshooting and other stuff wrote:
A USB NIC is a network card (Network InterConnect) that connects to your computer using the USB bus. (See for example http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=133). Depending on your work process, having one or two available may solve your problem.
hmmm.. what's the difference between this and a host-to-host cable, it's actally the same only packaged differently.
How often do the clients need to connect to the server and for how long?
for downloading (and sometimes uploading) lectures mp3s to a linux box with special program that sort this lectures. I assume it is about 10 minutes of use, and that it'll be used about three times a week.
How many client laptops are there ?
Not too many three or four.
Yaacov
meh wrote:
Yaacov Fenster - System Engineering Troubleshooting and other stuff wrote:
Here are a few ideas/questions:
a) Connect a USB CD and boot from it to Linux.
b) Bringup a virtual windows session under vmware and use the windows to windows software. (http://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws32_devices5.html)
c) Boot the laptop from a diskette and move the files over the network.
This are all impossible ideas I'm not the one doing the file moving
d) If you don't have a network connection, you can use an USB NIC.
'xcuse my ignorance but what is USB NIC?
e) Does it have a parallel port? Or anything else other than USB?
see below some don't have that.
f) Are you going to be synchronizing on a continuous basis, or is this a one time shot?
The thing is I have one linux base server, and many clients with different laptops that nedds to get files from there. Some has newer computers without parallel port all has usb and I already have a host-to-host usb cable.
So I can handle making an apache server serving the good files, or even writing some client program all users will use, but I need an easy way to raise tcp/ip connection.
Thanks again
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