On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 09:52:34AM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > As already mentioned, this simply will not work. As already mentioned in this thread, this isn't strictly true. There is USB "on the go" (aka OTG [1]); this has even a protocol to switch masters. That makes sense for mobile devices, which have to play slave when being attached to a computer (sync and things) and have to play master when stuffing a storage stick into them. But at any time there can only be one master on an USB tree. And the hardware has to play along. > Why are you > wanting to employ USB Ethernet / TCPIP is the way to go. Make the > external drive a NAS, and you are good to go. Many NAS systems > support printer sharing, or you can roll your own. USB is no replacement for networking, no. Cheers -- tomás
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