[Gllug] External USB HD recommendations

[Bob Giles]

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 12:56 +0000, John Hearns wrote:
> 
> 
> 2008/12/3 Bob Giles <thecorfiot at gmx.co.uk>
>         
>          
>         John,
>         
>         I don't think that there is any claim that this is a NAS
>         server. I have
>         only been going by the blurb! Although accompanying software
>         is for Win
>         boxes, I have definitely read accounts on the various Ubuntu
>         forums of
>         these and similar drives being accessible via TCP/IP. To save
>         you
>         hunting, I have lifted the following description.
>         
> Bob, thanks for that. It simply has to have some sort of embedded
> processor, running what I would surmise would be a Samba server (and
> hence it would run a flavour of BSD or Linux).
> It would be very interesting to run nmap on one of these things, and
> see what it offers.
>  

John et al,

I should add that whilst looking into these drives I have seen other
similar drives that aren't advertised as NAS but merely drives
accessible via ethernet. Lacie make more than one and I definitely
recall seeing another in Maplins in West Thurrock when last in the UK.
That was only 500Mb (only! How blase!) and was clearly the end of a line
in a battered box. I didn't buy it!

Bob G.

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