Re: Exporting via USB, possible?

[Bill Fehring <luci@billfehring.com>]

I think it's a bit more than just a cable termination change and even
assuming you had connectivity, the next problem you get to worry about
is making a filesystem present itself as block device with a
filesystem on it (that might not even necessarily be the same one as
the original filesystem, as most usb sticks are formatted with FAT)

It looks like something like this was used in the PSP hacking scene
called usbhostfs and nethostfs... though I can't find a lot of useful
documentation for it, so I'm not sure it could be used for this
application.

-Bill

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 21:24, Tim Grossner <tim@grossner.net> wrote:
> What he wants is a program on the pc to emulate a USB drive. It would be
> more than just that, though. I think the USB spec doesn't let the "host"
> side do that without a cable termination change. I've seen something sort of
> simmilar, only reversed on the Maemo platform, whereas the Maemo unit would
> look like a USB drive when connected to a host, someone wrote a binary for
> it to actually BE a host and connect to a drive, using a USB cable
> "crossover" (for lack of a better term).
>
> Tim Grossner
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> On Dec 26, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Samir Faci <samir@esamir.com> wrote:
>
>> So.. you're trying to connect your video player to a Linux machine and
>> have it see the video files?  I'm not sure I understand what you're
>> trying to do.
>>
>> --
>> Samir
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Herbie <technowombat@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Like I said, the other 'machine' isn't a PC, it's a video player, that
>>> recognises USB drives, no ethernet, hence the USB idea.
>>>
>>> h.
>>>
>>> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009, Ben Story wrote:
>>>
>>>> Why not use samba and do a network file share?
>>>>
>>>> Ben Story, CCSP, CCDA
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 24, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Herbie <technowombat@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to setup a linux machine to export a directory so that
>>>>> it
>>>>> appears to another machine connected to the USB port as a USB drive?
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a video player that uses USB drives as one of it's storeage
>>>>> formats, and I'd like to be able to just hook it up to my PC and have
>>>>> it see
>>>>> the video files, without the hassles of sync'ing up an extra USB HD.
>>>>>
>>>>> Figured someone may have heard of some esoteric project to do such.
>>>>>
>>>>> h.
>>>>>
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