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    External drive always accesable

    Right, i've got an external usb drive connected to my main pc, which is available over the network to my laptop, but if my pc is off it's in accesable, is there a way to make it permanently accesable over the network?

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    Re: External drive always accesable

    You have 2 main options, you can look into wol so it wakes up when you need it or you can get a cheap buffalo NAS which has the USB ports to plug in additional HD's, for the NAS option you would need a spare network socket.

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    Re: External drive always accesable

    Sound advice, IMHO go the NAS route mate its pretty painless to set up and should give you the basic ability to control access to the drive based on user accounts.
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    Re: External drive always accesable

    you should consider a linksys NSLU2, which presents USB devices on the network. It's probably cheaper than a NAS box

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    Re: External drive always accesable

    Isn't the nslu2 a NAS device?

    Nice suggestion, thats a nice little device. Going one step further what about a wrt54g or compatible with dd-wrt firmware as in another thread.
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    Re: External drive always accesable

    in essence. it does a lot of other stuff too.
    It doesnt have any drive bays however.

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