On Sunday 01 May 2005 07:34 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > JR wrote: > > On Sunday 01 May 2005 12:27 pm, Paul M wrote: > >>JR wrote: > >>>My laptop is pretty low on harddrive space. If I want to install > >>>something big (like openoffice or a large game), I usually have to > >>>uninstall something else, or delete some music. > >>> > >>>I'm wondering is there a minimal way that I could connect a harddrive to > >>>the network here at home, and use it as another partitiion? Or even just > >>>as a network drive. Maybe I could put all my mp3's on it. > >>> > >>>Thanks, > >>> > >>>Jarlath > >> > >>Wouldn't a USB hard drive work for you? > >> > >>Or more cheaply, a year or so ago I bought an enclosures for a couple of > >>old 2.5" drives I had lying in a draw at UKP 3.50 each, just stick the > >>drive in, and plug in. > >> > >>Just taken a look and the firm is still there on ebay, at: > >> > >>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=96894&item=51912 > >>61 496&rd=1 > >> > >>if you've got any lying about there's also enclosures for 3.5 inch hard > >>drives, but haven't tried these. > > > > Hi Paul, > > > > Thanks for that. After hearing about the network drive, I think I'd like > > to do something like that. If I plug in a USB drive, I loose mobility. I > > like to take my laptop around the house. > > > > But with the wireless network I have, a networked drive would be great. > > Half of my harddrive is either music (audio / video), or graphics / > > photography stuff. I could put most of that on the shared drive and > > everyone in the house could access it from their computers. > > > > Does a network drive just connect to the ethernet port on the router? > > > > Jarlath > > Yes, it does. It is a dedicated computer, that only does file sharing. > Some will do more then one type of file sharign at the same time. So you > could have the same drives used as a Windows share, and a NFS share, > depending on how you connect to it. Chances are, it will have a WEB > interface for configuring it. > > Another way to do the same thing is to take an old computer, install > Linux on it, and set it to do the same thing. It doesn't take much to > have a file server/print server/setup. I set one up for my brother using > a P133 with 32M of RAM. No keyboard/mouse/monitor. The only limmit was > the size of the hard. (The BIOS didn't like the 60GB drive.) The > disadvantage here is the bigger size, and the extra noise. The advantage > is the lower cost, and you can make it do more. > > Mikkel Thanks Mikkel,
I'll try to hunt down an old pc first. Thats a good idea, and it would be fun too. I could possibly use it as a remote machine aswell, which I could ssh into and practice all those linuxy things I'm too afraid to try on my own laptop :) Regards, Jarlath
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