Using external HDD on a switch

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silkmaze

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I have, at the moment, 3 external HDD's connected directly to my laptop. I will be setting up my new PC (running OpenSuse and Windows 7 Ultimate in dual boot) in about a week. I have another 2 external drives that are not being used at the moment.

I want to use a switch to connect the laptop and PC and still be able to access the external HDD's, regardless of what OS I am using at the time. I know that it's possible that if I am using Win 7 on the PC then accessing the HDD's attached to the laptop is not a problem. My question is, if I am using Linux can I access the HDD's that are attached to the laptop?

I have seen USB-Ethernet adapters and I was wondering if I could attach the external USB HDD's directly to the switch using such an adaptor?
 
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stillblue
You can't use a USB-ethernet adapter, those allow you to connect an ethernet cable to a usb port on your computer.

If it is a closed network you could use samba to share the media folder. If you connect to the net make sure that you firewall, password and user the samba permissions.
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Alabalcho

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What you need is some kind of a server or NAS where to connect the drives. Although I am not sure why you need to have five external drives connected thru USB, though.

I don't know what kind of USB-Ethernet adapters you've seen, most probably they act as a server as well for a single drive, but managing five of them would be a nightmare.
 
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You can't use a USB-ethernet adapter, those allow you to connect an ethernet cable to a usb port on your computer.

If it is a closed network you could use samba to share the media folder. If you connect to the net make sure that you firewall, password and user the samba permissions.
 
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