2 comps, 1 external drive

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David Besack wrote:

> I have an external hard drive with 2 firewire ports and a USB port. Is
> there any way to plug 2 computers into this one drive and allow them both to
> access it?

Plug the drive into the machine that needs the fastest access to the
drive, and then share it over the network.


-WD

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"David Besack" <daveREMOVEbesack@mac.com> wrote in message
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> > > I have an external hard drive with 2 firewire ports and a USB port.
Is
> > > there any way to plug 2 computers into this one drive and allow them
> both to
> > > access it?
> >
> > Plug the drive into the machine that needs the fastest access to the
> > drive, and then share it over the network.
>
> I'll give that a try. The reason I didn't at first was because I've heard
a
> lot of people have problems when sharing external drives.
>
It should work OK that way. I sometimes share a flash dongle on one computer
on the network when I need to refresh files on it and it has always worked
fine. The only downside I can imagine (haven't confirmed) might come up if
the computer sharing over the network had the external drive tied up when
you wanted to physically disconnect it.
--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com