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68K USB workaround? USB 2.0 --> Ethernet server/adapter

68kMLA Networking 8 posts May 17, 2009 to May 18, 2009
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#1 Sun, 17 May 2009 - 03:54 68kMLA
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

#2 Sun, 17 May 2009 - 04:17 68kMLA
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.

#3 Sun, 17 May 2009 - 04:34 68kMLA
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

#4 Sun, 17 May 2009 - 04:45 68kMLA
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.

#5 Sun, 17 May 2009 - 09:59 68kMLA
Couldn't you do the same with an Airport Base Station?

#6 Sun, 17 May 2009 - 18:10 68kMLA
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.

#7 Mon, 18 May 2009 - 06:25 68kMLA
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.

#8 Mon, 18 May 2009 - 09:38 68kMLA
....NTFS or FAT32 volume that the resource fork would be stripped.
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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.

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