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Posted by: Byrd on 2009-05-16 19:54:31
Hi,
This may be a long shot, but Jaycar (an electronic component store here in Australia) are selling a "USB 2.0 networking server" which basically lets you plug in a USB device and share the device through a network, standalone:
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=YN8400&keywords=usb+network&form=KEYWORD
... in an ideal world, could we plug a USB memory key or hard disk into this device - and access it directly via the Mac OS Chooser, or via a web browser (assuming it has some sort of web-based interface to configure the device).
... it states that Windows 2000/XP/Vista are supported, but doesn't offer any other documentation.
Has anyone tried a device like this on their 68K/PPC Mac, and your thoughts?
JB
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Posted by: tmtomh on 2009-05-16 20:17:53
Looks very interesting - although it's $80.
But without knowing how the dongle makes the USB device appear on the network, it's tough to know if a 68k Mac will be able to make use of it.
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Posted by: Byrd on 2009-05-16 20:34:43
Next time I'm in there, I'll have a look at the manuals. "Windows Vista Rally" which the page refers to doesn't look like it does much - apart from some fancy QoS stuff.
JB
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2009-05-16 20:45:18
It seems like it'd run something similar to Samba, as it seems to use Windows networking, Theoretically, if you have a copy of Thursby's DAVE (i have a copy of 2.5.1, which supports pretty much anything from a Quadra running System 7.1 onwards from memory), I can't see any reason as to why you couldn't connect to it from a Mac. Don't count on being able to get to do AFP shares though, or do anything with files with Macintosh resource forks.
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Posted by: Bunsen on 2009-05-17 01:59:06
Couldn't you do the same with an Airport Base Station?
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Posted by: Charlieman on 2009-05-17 10:10:42
Thursby's DAVE works fine at writing/reading Mac files with resource forks from a Windows share. Data and resource forks are stored in separate file structures, so be careful if you use a Windows PC or Unix box to copy files.
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2009-05-17 22:25:28
Charlieman: Really? Thats interesting...I've never played around with storing files with Mac resource forks on a Windows share since I just assumed that being copied to an NTFS or FAT32 volume that the resource fork would be stripped.
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Posted by: porter on 2009-05-18 01:38:07
....NTFS or FAT32 volume that the resource fork would be stripped. I use Windows "Services For Macintosh" and it stores resources and the finder info as NTFS streams ( :AFP_Resource and :AFP_AfpInfo respectively ), but that only works when you access the volume over AFP.
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