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Topic: Sharing a hard drive on a network

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Posted: April 15 2008,21:16

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?

Jason W

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Posted: April 15 2008,22:43

Yes, with either NFS or Samba. Both are available as extensions.

curaga

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Posted: April 20 2008,09:24

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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