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by HungryGuy on November 22nd, 2009

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Is it possible to connect an external USB hard drive to two or more computers at the same time so that it'll act like a shared drive?

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  • by acablue on November 22nd, 2009

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    No, the only way to do this would be to buy a USB router/switch and connect both computers to the hard drive, like so: http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11053144/4_in_1_Wireless_USB_Multifunction_Router_Bonus_Ipsec_Vpn_.jpg

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  • by Im Alec has abandoned this account on August 9th, 2010

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    Impossible. Unless you have a third computer which can act as a server. USB is very definitely a master/slave relationship: the computer expects to be the only master, and the disk will slave to only one computer.

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  • by Thaoh on April 22nd, 2010

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    Alternatively, set up the usb-drive on a server and have the server share it with the wished security settings...

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