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Chris Taylor wrote:

> On 13/10/10 13:41, Chris Taylor wrote:
>> Hi All
>> What I would like to do I don't know if it is possible but lets go
>> I would like to have a Modem that I connect to direct and wireless.
>> Have the modem, have a portable 1TB HDD connect via USB that I can have
>> both Computers use the storage space, So most or all files would kept on
>> the modem/portable HDD
>> Thanks for any info
>> Chris Taylor
> More info
> I have a Desktop that is direct wired to the DSL-G604T Wireless ADSL2+
> Router and a laptop that connects wireless

Hello,

In simple words, you want a NAS?

But what should the NAS do with the MODEM? Should it be accessible from the 
WAN too or only from your LAN?

If your MODEM/router combo DSL-G604T (D-Link?) has an USB port for 
connecting a printer, a web-cam or any other stuff, it can certainly handle 
any not too big (less than 400 MB) FAT32 formated HDD over the FTP protocol.

If not... You'll have to buy a NAS; they're becoming cheaper now.

But what you'll get is only what comes out of the box: a cheap hardware, 
using a propriatary file system formated HD mainly limited to 2.1GB files, 
with an FTP server.
If you are lucky enough, it may support SaMBa/CIFS, Unison, and perhaps UPnP 
too...

My solution was FreeNAS. I'm using a PII 400MHz/386MB RAM server running 
FreeNAS since 2007. You get a real bunch of functionnality and you can 
assemble your project server right as you need it and make it grow when you 
need it.

Mine runs 24/7 since then with some reboots for maintenance/update jobs and 
has now 2.5TB storage capacity and only sky's the limit... Using it merely 
for backups, sharing files over my LAN, installation/update server for the 
local computers running Linux; actually three complete MDV editions mirrored 
for quicker system updates or installations.

It can also work as UPnP server, NFS HDD, Rsync server, Web server, i-Tunes 
server, DynDNS and has some other possible functions.

If you're interrested, you can take a look at:

http://freenas.org/

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Ciao @+

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