[nfbcs] anyone use pho plug?

[Jim Barbour]

So, I'm not OSX literate enough to give you the details, but here's
what I can say.

Your drive can certainly be shared over the network with other computers, including other computers on the internet as a whole.  This can be very dangerous.  You may also need to modify your router to allow access to the shared drives.

Here's an article that can get you started...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1549?viewlocale=en_US

Jim


On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:54:34PM -0700, Gabe Vega wrote:
> sorry, I should have been much clearer. I have a 1TB drive connected to a pc. a mac to be exact.I heard of devices that would connect to a router port and have a usb port on the other end so that you can connect a drive and access the data over the net. or is there a software solution to do this with the pc as a host? 
> 
> I subscribe to skydrive, and I guess I could move my 45GB folder over and share it that way, but I was looking for something a little bit more direct. and maybe I could pay a couple more dollars to up my 45gb to 100gb. well, if anyone has ideas, let me know. thanks.
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> On Nov 15, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Jim Barbour <jbar at barcore.com> wrote:
> 
> > Your question is a bit vague, so let me see if I can add some flavor
> > here.
> > 
> > You can -- using services like pogo plug, dropbox, sugarsync, google
> > drive -- make data available to you on the internet from a local drive
> > on your machine.  None of this will be free and the data must all be
> > uploaded to the cloud servers.  The benefits of doing it this way is
> > that you now have a backup of the data in the cloud.  The downsides of
> > this are they you have to pay for storage, and then upload the data to
> > the cloud servers.
> > 
> > I hope this answers your question.  If not, feel free to ask more.
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:19:05PM -0700, Gabe Vega wrote:
> >> would like to hook up a 1tb usb drive to the internet and have access to it from anywhere. does anyone know how this can be done, via pogoplug or any other solution? Thanks.
> >> Gabe Vega - Sent from my MacbookAir
> >> Blog: http://thebt.net
> >> iMessage/Email: theblindtech at gmail.com
> >> Phone: (623) 565-9357
> >> 
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