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68K USB workaround? USB 2.0 --> Ethernet server/adapter
68K USB workaround? USB 2.0 --> Ethernet server/adapter
Networking 8 posts
May 17, 2009 — May 18, 2009
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
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
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.
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.
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
JB
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.
Couldn't you do the same with an Airport Base Station?
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.
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.
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.....NTFS or FAT32 volume that the resource fork would be stripped.