Not really broke. Eg. the BananaPi Router board comes in at about €75, with 5 Gb interfaces (4 switched) and a 2.5" SATA connector, and runs a minimally adapted Debian called Bananian. Add to that a small powered USB hub, starting at about €10, and some cables, and your total should be at around €100. As for required reading: * Samba * autofs and/or udev to automagically export USB devices via Samba Can't tell you what to do about the USB Hotspot, never used one of those. Regards /peter Am 11.05.2016 um 16:32 schrieb Richard Owlett: > Underlying question: What should I be reading? > > I wish a blackbox which: > > 1. Connects 4 local machines via Ethernet [WiFi shall *NOT* be considered] > A. A desktop with WinXP and multiple versions of Debian > B. A laptop with WinXP Pro SP3 whose reason for existence is running > SeaMonkey. > Historically it is/was my primary machine. Its future is as a > portable. > C. A laptop dedicated to Linux experiments. I have erased the HDD as > many as > ten times in one week ;/ > D. Misc temporarily connected laptops. > 2. It shall provide multiple USB ports in order that a selection of > flash dives > and a 1 TB HDD can be accessed by any machine. > 3. It *SHALL* connect to the internet via a T-Mobile 4G Hotspot Z915 > connected > via USB. The WiFi features have been disabled. I really wanted a USB > cell network > modem. The local T-Mobile outlet was only vendor that didn't try > assaulting me with > their 'smartphone-du-jour' with an atrociously large data plan. this > connection > shall be protected by a firewall. > > How broke will I be? > TIA > >
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