USB over ethernet

[Jeff Kinz]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 12:57:02PM -0400, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 12:33:03PM -0400, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> > Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:22:30AM -0400, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> > >>Does anyone know of any drivers that support USB over ethernet?
> > >>
> > > Bruce, IIRC the LTSP project implements that ability.  Using their tools
> > > the server is able to read and write to/from USB devices, floppies and
> > > what not. 
> > 
> > Yes. LTSP appears to support only USB-storage devices (and via
> > SMB/samba). This is fine for thumb drives, but not for webcams (or
> > whatever those little cameras that clip onto your monitor are called).
> > I'm sure there are other devices too.
> > 
> > Its mostly samba with a bunch of glue scripts.
> 
> No - its much more advanced than that (IIRC)  they have made some
> special efforts to support block devices.

I think I need to re-phrase that.  Its not more complicated but its now
very different from that. They used to use samba with a bunch of glue
scripts but now they use "fuse".  A user space file system, routed
through VFS.


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Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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