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On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On 7 Oct 2009, at 22:08, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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>> Stroller writes: |
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>>> On 7 Oct 2009, at 18:38, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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>>>> Rohit writes: |
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>>>>> I have seen a cable and a box (USB powered only) which used to make |
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>>>>> drives of one machine available to the other. |
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>>>>> It was available from scan.co.uk - 2 years back. |
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>>>> I didn't find it there, but now that I looked for such a thing I |
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>>>> think I found a similar one. Thanks! Linux is not being mentioned, but |
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>>>> at least it says there are no drivers needed. I wonder how it would be |
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>>>> possible that two system use the system at the same time. |
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>>>> As the cable is cheap, I think I'll just get one and try it. |
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>>> Do you have a link for this, please? |
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>> Only in German: |
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>> http://www.pearl.de/a-PE187-1414.shtml?query=USB data link |
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>> It says there is no driver or software installation necessary. When |
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>> connected, a data transfer program will open automatically. Does this mean |
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>> there is some program that is executed automatically when connecting, or |
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>> is |
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>> this just the usual Windows feature that opens a new drive and shows its |
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>> contents? |
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>>> I'm very unclear how this could be achieved without drivers. |
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>> Me too, after some thinking I believe this will not be what I need. How |
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>> would the cable know the location where to store data it receives from the |
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>> other client? |
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> I'm not able to answer any of your questions, but I've seen similar products |
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> advertised before which were clearly 2 USB network adaptors - like this |
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> <http://ledshoppe.com/Product/com/CA3005.htm> - in a single cable. In fact, |
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> looking up that example I found the same store explicitly selling exactly as |
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> I describe: <http://ledshoppe.com/Product/com/CA3004.htm>. |
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> In this case the "no drivers needed" would suggest to me that the drivers |
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> are installed by default under XP. |
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And also "no drivers needed" does not mean "no software needed" :) |
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I googled around and seems most common with these cables is a program |
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called PC-Linq. This page has a link to download (maybe it works in |
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WINE?) and a screenshot: |
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http://www.georgedillon.com/freeware/pclinq.shtml |
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