On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 09:12:16PM +0000, mick wrote:
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:01:47 +0000 Chris G cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
My experience is that most USB drives 'just work' nowadays in Linux, you only get into OS issues when the drive is a network drive connected by ethernet.
I'm sorry - I don't understand that. What are you saying?
How and why should any Linux based machine (or any other OS for that matter) know or care anything about the architecture, manufacturer, host OS or anything else about any remote storage device accessible over the network?
I can connect to disks mounted on windows servers, *BSDs or Unices or Linux distros (you name it) using a whole slew of dfferent protocols including NFS, SAMBA, FTP, TFTP, HTTP, etc.
Nearly all cheap NAS systems do *only* Samba and that not very well so don't always talk nicely with linux Samba.