Share External Hard Drive over Network

[brooksf86]

I have just purchased an external hard drive to load all my music on.

My ultimate goal is to share it over a wireless network without having it attached to a computer. I currently have a printer that networked through my router. Is there any chance I can do the same type of sharing with this external hard drive?

Thanks

-brooks.

 

[montag451]

Has your external drive unit got an NIC connection?
If it has, it shouldn't be a problem - you can get them more easily now - more popular as many people want to do what you are doing.

If no NIC, then you would have to connect it to a comp.

 

[brooksf86]

no NIC connection. i have LaCie Brick 160GB drive. it has a usb 2.0. am i out of luck or is there some tricky way of sovling my problem? i am only storing music files on this hard drive. my sister has a cluster of cds and i said i would back them up for her so she can get rid of them.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Share it on your computer and then map the drive on the other computers.

 

[brooksf86]

two laptops will be accessing it. i was hoping i wouldn't have to hook it up directly to the laptop every time...just something hooked up through the router with using a network external drive

 

[montag451]

If you have no NIC on the hdd, then I suppose it may be possible to get a usb-nic connector, hook that into your router, give it an IP address through the router and hey presto -

BUT
I would post the same question in Networking to be sure of this first.

 

[Peter]

Some routers have a USB host connector where you can hook up printers and storage. Mine, an AVM 7141, does