Floris <jkflo...@dds.nl> wrote: > I have a Sumsung TV which can record to an usb mass storage device. Is > it possible to connect an usb-cable between the TV and the Debian > Box, so that the TV can use (a part of) the harddisk as usb device?
Short answer: no. Longer answer: maybe, with special hardware and software. USB consists of a host part (normally inside your computer but also in any device which is able to write to USB mass storage devices) which contains the host controller and the root hub and devices. There can always be only one root. To be able to connect one root controller with another you need a piece of hardware between the two which is able to act as a device to both ends. There are USB network devices used to connect two computers together (from the time when ethernet ports in laptops where still rare, for example) but no devices which emulate a mass storage device to one side while being something different to the other. The other option would be the USB On-The-Go mode (or USB OTG) which allows a device to both act as a host and a device. Many smart phones or other embedded devices have such a mode to use the same USB connector to a) connect an USB stick to put data on or b) to connect to a computer to be a mass storage device (or modem) itself. I don't know of any normal computers or addon cards with such a feature. In theory you would need either an addon card or special cable which looks like a mass storage device to the Samsung TV and special software on the computer which then writes and reads the date received to a file (or partition). In practice the answer is still: sorry, no. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5bbgcqeva...@mids.svenhartge.de
