Is USB over ethernet possible

[Flavio Costa]

SSHFS is not as fast as NFS but I guess it would work on your enviroment
since you are not targeting speed.

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:47:08PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > 2008/5/9 Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:
> > > Going on from that recent question about ethernet over USB is the
> > > opposite possible?
> > >
> > > I.e. I have two Linux boxes networked and one has a USB device that I
> > > would like to be able to see as a USB device from the other Liux box.
> > > Can that be done?
> > >
> >
> > At home I have two Ubuntu machines on a router, each with their own
> > LAN IP address (DHCP). One has SSH enabled. I can plug a USB device
> > into that machine, which is automagically mounted in /media/usbstick.
> > I can then SSH into that machine and browse the USB stick.
> >
> > Now, as for mounting a USB webcam, I would imagine that it can be done
> > by mounting the remote /dev/video locally but I've never tried. What
> > other USB devices did you have in mind?
> >
> I currently have a USB disk drive on a machine in my garage which I
> use for backups.  Currently I access this as follows:-
>
>    It's mounted locally on the garage system.
>
>    It's NFS exported from the garage system.
>
>    It's NFS mounted on my desktop system.
>
> While this works it's not 100% satisfactory because firstly it's a
> *bit* difficult to guarantee that the mount of the USB drive on the
> garage system happens automatically when it powers up.  Secondly if
> the garage system powers down and then up again I get the dreaded
> "Stale NFS File Handle" on my desktop system and it's a real pig to
> clear that and get the mounts working again.
>
> If I could 'see' the drive on my desktop system as a USB drive then I
> could mount it there on an 'as needed' basis (i.e. when the backup
> cron job does a backup) and I would need NFS.
>
>
> I've just had a "lateral thinking" thought, it might be that sshfs
> would be more robust than NFS for this sort of use.
>
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Flávio Coutinho da Costa
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