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Not exactly an OS question by Sharing USB Drives on network?
I have 2 laptops, a printer, and maybe we could add in the TV and BlueRay player on my network. Actually all are wired
but could be wireless, but that's not the point. I have one lone Windows 7 Desktop with two large internal drives and 3-4 USB drives I can plug in. I loosely call it my file server. The down side is, it's not always on. I would love to find a small device or a router that would let me share without the desktop. Initially I want to just share files. If I want a picture from 1999 of a picnic then I could browse and pick. If I can browse with Windows Explorer then I could also play the movies I have. That would be the PRIMARY use. Being able to see and share with my TV/Blue-ray player would be a plus. They are smart, and can see my laptop photos, so whatever feature they are using could/might work on this new device. I've seen bantered around the term DLNA. I'll take failure comments too, heck we can all learn from failures. :-) |
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Not exactly an OS question by Sharing USB Drives on network?
On 02/20/2015 10:00 AM, Big_Al wrote:
I have 2 laptops, a printer, and maybe we could add in the TV and BlueRay player on my network. Actually all are wired but could be wireless, but that's not the point. I have one lone Windows 7 Desktop with two large internal drives and 3-4 USB drives I can plug in. I loosely call it my file server. The down side is, it's not always on. I would love to find a small device or a router that would let me share without the desktop. Initially I want to just share files. If I want a picture from 1999 of a picnic then I could browse and pick. If I can browse with Windows Explorer then I could also play the movies I have. That would be the PRIMARY use. Being able to see and share with my TV/Blue-ray player would be a plus. They are smart, and can see my laptop photos, so whatever feature they are using could/might work on this new device. I've seen bantered around the term DLNA. I'll take failure comments too, heck we can all learn from failures. :-) For sharing files ...NAS |
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Not exactly an OS question by Sharing USB Drives on network?
On 02/20/2015 11:19 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:07:26 -0600, philo wrote: On 02/20/2015 10:00 AM, Big_Al wrote: I have 2 laptops, a printer, and maybe we could add in the TV and BlueRay player on my network. Actually all are wired but could be wireless, but that's not the point. I have one lone Windows 7 Desktop with two large internal drives and 3-4 USB drives I can plug in. I loosely call it my file server. The down side is, it's not always on. I would love to find a small device or a router that would let me share without the desktop. Initially I want to just share files. If I want a picture from 1999 of a picnic then I could browse and pick. If I can browse with Windows Explorer then I could also play the movies I have. That would be the PRIMARY use. Being able to see and share with my TV/Blue-ray player would be a plus. They are smart, and can see my laptop photos, so whatever feature they are using could/might work on this new device. I've seen bantered around the term DLNA. I'll take failure comments too, heck we can all learn from failures. :-) For sharing files ...NAS I like FreeNAS. I have played with the Asus routers that have the ability to share files from USB drives, but the file sharing is so slow as to make it virtually useless. To run FreeNAS you will need a spare 64bit machine, so, you might be better off just running your desktop. You could also accomplish what you want with a Raspberry Pi or other utility type computer. In the end, you are going to be running something, so once again, you might just run your desktop. I doubt the power savings will be that tremendous unless your desktop machine is a real power-pig. Actually I was thinking more along this line http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...l_8ca5vsgg4y_b |
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Not exactly an OS question by Sharing USB Drives on network?
On 02/20/2015 12:05 PM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
Actually I was thinking more along this line http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...l_8ca5vsgg4y_b I haven't tried one of those, but it looks like a reasonable alternative. I would carefully read through the 400, 1 star reviews before I purchased it. I just popped that up there as an example... it was one of the lower priced models. I'm sure there are better-reviewed units out there for a little more money but still reasonably priced. A few years back I was thinking about setting up a full server in my basement but when I looked at the power consumption realized I'd be better off with a low power networked drive. Though I had all data backed up...I recently lost two hard drives on a standby machine that were taken out due to a power supply failure. I've seen plenty of blown power supplies but this was the first time I saw one take out hard drives. Backups are good! |
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Not exactly an OS question by Sharing USB Drives on network?
Stormin' Norman wrote on 2/20/2015 2:41 PM:
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:56:11 -0600, philo wrote: On 02/20/2015 12:05 PM, Stormin' Norman wrote: Actually I was thinking more along this line http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...l_8ca5vsgg4y_b I haven't tried one of those, but it looks like a reasonable alternative. I would carefully read through the 400, 1 star reviews before I purchased it. I just popped that up there as an example... it was one of the lower priced models. I'm sure there are better-reviewed units out there for a little more money but still reasonably priced. A few years back I was thinking about setting up a full server in my basement but when I looked at the power consumption realized I'd be better off with a low power networked drive. Though I had all data backed up...I recently lost two hard drives on a standby machine that were taken out due to a power supply failure. I've seen plenty of blown power supplies but this was the first time I saw one take out hard drives. Backups are good! I had the same thing happen two months ago. Power supply failure caused a discreet component on the HD control board to explode (or maybe it was the reverse). I had a number of identical, unused drives so I swapped the control board and power supply, fired it up and all the data was just fine. Dumb luck. If I weren't so lazy, I would repair the PS and control board...... maybe some day. See now, the interesting fact is that you kept the blown parts. :-) |
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Not exactly an OS question by Sharing USB Drives on network?
R. C. White wrote on 2/20/2015 2:47 PM:
Hi, AL. As they say: Bingle is your friend. ;) DLNA = Digital Living Network Alliance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital...twork_Alliance RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010) Windows Live Mail 2012 (Build 16.4.3528.0331) in Win8.1 Pro w/Media Center "Big_Al" wrote in message ... I have 2 laptops, a printer, and maybe we could add in the TV and BlueRay player on my network. Actually all are wired but could be wireless, but that's not the point. I have one lone Windows 7 Desktop with two large internal drives and 3-4 USB drives I can plug in. I loosely call it my file server. The down side is, it's not always on. I would love to find a small device or a router that would let me share without the desktop. Initially I want to just share files. If I want a picture from 1999 of a picnic then I could browse and pick. If I can browse with Windows Explorer then I could also play the movies I have. That would be the PRIMARY use. Being able to see and share with my TV/Blue-ray player would be a plus. They are smart, and can see my laptop photos, so whatever feature they are using could/might work on this new device. I've seen bantered around the term DLNA. I'll take failure comments too, heck we can all learn from failures. :-) Sorry I wasn't real clear, but I have read DLNA since I got it with the 60" TV I bought. Had to research. And it shares all my media fine. At least on my laptop. And I guess if I had a usb drive plugged in and shared in that group of items, then those too would show on the TV. Not sure how much the usb might slow data transfer though. Would be an interesting test one day. I do have a 64G usb (tiny little sucker) in the Blue-Ray and I can really put a ton of 1.4 to 2G movies on it. That's a cool way around movie viewing. |
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Not exactly an OS question by Sharing USB Drives on network?
On 02/20/2015 01:41 PM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
snip d! I had the same thing happen two months ago. Power supply failure caused a discreet component on the HD control board to explode (or maybe it was the reverse). I had a number of identical, unused drives so I swapped the control board and power supply, fired it up and all the data was just fine. Dumb luck. If I weren't so lazy, I would repair the PS and control board...... maybe some day. In my situation I did have an identical hard drive that was not in the machine, but replacing the electronics with the good one, still did not get the drives working again. It was no big deal as it was a ten year old XP-64 machine I had built for my wife and everything was backed up several times. Once I did get lucky with a drive that was not even detected by the BIOS...I found a SMT capacitor that had a bad solder joint and one end was raised a bit off the board. Re-soldered and all OK. Other than that I don't bother with board-level repairs...new stuff is so cheap it's not worth it. |
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Not exactly an OS question by Sharing USB Drives on network?
On 02/20/2015 04:10 PM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
I had the same thing happen two months ago. Power supply failure caused a discreet component on the HD control board to explode (or maybe it was the reverse). I had a number of identical, unused drives so I swapped the control board and power supply, fired it up and all the data was just fine. Dumb luck. If I weren't so lazy, I would repair the PS and control board...... maybe some day. See now, the interesting fact is that you kept the blown parts. :-) Yeah, I cringe at the throw-away mentality and I love fixing things. Hard to fix things if you don't have parts, so I save a lot of stuff for repair purposes. I believe in fixing computers and have boxes of spare parts... so it's not worth wasting my time doing component-level repair. Also fix other things around the house and keep a lot of things going most people would not bother with. |
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