Can two computers share one external hard drive?

Can two computers share one external hard drive?

You can link a single external hard drive to two or more computers that are on the same network. You cannot, however, connect two computers directly to the drive by USB, eSATA or Firewire. External hard drives can only be connected to one computer, and they can then be set up for sharing over a network.

Can you access a hard drive from another computer?

You can use your laptop to access another computer’s disk drives over a network. To be more specific, however, you don’t really access the entire disk drive. No, only specific folders on the drive are up for sharing.

How do I share a USB speaker with two computers?

Figure A

1. Connect the jack from your speakers to one end of the coupler.
2. Connect the male end of the Y-adapter to the other end of the coupler.
3. Connect both of the audio cables to the two female jacks on the Y-adapter.
4. Connect the other ends of the audio cables to the speaker jacks on the two computers.

Can two computers hooked to a USB hub share USB devices?

There’s also a USB switch that will let you hook up two computers to a USB device or hub. Belkin makes one, and I’m sure there are others. It doesn’t allow simultaneous access, but rather selctive access. As in you press the button to chosse which computer has access to the device(s).

Can you connect a USB drive to a Home Hub 5?

I have a Home Hub 5 and have bought a 1Tb USB drive to connect to it so I can share files around my home. It is a WD MyPassport. I have been unable to get the HH to recognise it, and the hub home page says ” File type not supported”.

Can you connect external HDD to Home Hub?

I have managed to get network access of a drive connected to the hub USB port working with a number of thumb drives, sd cards in an adapter and also with a 320GB USB2 portable HDD. Although I had no great expectations, it does seem to work although the speed is not great. I haven’t had problems with instability in general.

Can a NAS drive be connected to a Home Hub?

What we would really like to do is maybe purchase a WD 4Tb NAS drive so we can use it as our shared file store, and be able to back up both Macs to it, probably connecting the drive to the Hub via ethernet, rather than USB. My worry is that given some of the forum answers I’ve seen, the drive size will be too big for the router to ‘see’.