Fedora/Linux as a USB Drive

[Adalbert Prokop]

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.

-- 
bye,
Adalbert

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