68K USB workaround? USB 2.0 --> Ethernet server/adapter

[Byrd]

Hi,

This may be a long shot, but Jaycar (an electronic component store here in Australia) are selling a "USB 2.0 networking server" which basically lets you plug in a USB device and share the device through a network, standalone:

http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=YN8400&keywords=usb+network&form=KEYWORD

... in an ideal world, could we plug a USB memory key or hard disk into this device - and access it directly via the Mac OS Chooser, or via a web browser (assuming it has some sort of web-based interface to configure the device).

... it states that Windows 2000/XP/Vista are supported, but doesn't offer any other documentation.

Has anyone tried a device like this on their 68K/PPC Mac, and your thoughts?

JB

 

[tmtomh]

Looks very interesting - although it's $80.

But without knowing how the dongle makes the USB device appear on the network, it's tough to know if a 68k Mac will be able to make use of it.

 

[Byrd]

Next time I'm in there, I'll have a look at the manuals. "Windows Vista Rally" which the page refers to doesn't look like it does much - apart from some fancy QoS stuff.

JB

 

[LCGuy]

It seems like it'd run something similar to Samba, as it seems to use Windows networking, Theoretically, if you have a copy of Thursby's DAVE (i have a copy of 2.5.1, which supports pretty much anything from a Quadra running System 7.1 onwards from memory), I can't see any reason as to why you couldn't connect to it from a Mac. Don't count on being able to get to do AFP shares though, or do anything with files with Macintosh resource forks.

 

[Bunsen]

Couldn't you do the same with an Airport Base Station?

 

[Charlieman]

Thursby's DAVE works fine at writing/reading Mac files with resource forks from a Windows share. Data and resource forks are stored in separate file structures, so be careful if you use a Windows PC or Unix box to copy files.

 

[LCGuy]

Charlieman: Really? Thats interesting...I've never played around with storing files with Mac resource forks on a Windows share since I just assumed that being copied to an NTFS or FAT32 volume that the resource fork would be stripped.

 

[porter]

....NTFS or FAT32 volume that the resource fork would be stripped.

I use Windows "Services For Macintosh" and it stores resources and the finder info as NTFS streams ( :AFP_Resource and :AFP_AfpInfo respectively ), but that only works when you access the volume over AFP.