fit-pc as a portable drive

[robertb]

Presently, I have a USB stick which has Linux installed on it. I can start up the virtualization software and run Linux under Windows (Vista, but used to be XP).

I was thinking it might be good to go one step further and have an actual Linux machine connected instead in the form of a fitpc. (I'm thinking about buying it, but don't currently own one.)

So, what I would need is to be able to network to and through the Windows machine from the fit-PC2 machine via a USB cable. (Connecting to the ethernet network cable is both inconvenient and not always an option.)

I saw that Windows provides RDNIS which allows networking over a USB cable, allowing it to appear as a TCP/IP device. From there, I imagine, I may be able to tunnel through to the LAN and/or the internet.

Is this possible? Has anyone tried this?

Thanks.

[robertb]

Sorry, it's rndis (not rdnis).

[irads]

fit-PC2 does not have USB device port.

[robertb]

fit-PC2 does not have USB device port.

Does this mean that http://fit-pc2.com/wiki/index.php?title ... ailability is incorrect? It says that the device has 6 USB ports.

[AoRaToS]

I believe what irads meant was fit-PC2 has USB ports but it's not a USB device (as an MP3 player or such) and won't act like one if you plug it in to another computer so it won't be recognized as some device you can work with...

Edit: correct me if I'm wrong

[irads]

USB protocol is assymetric. There is a master (usually a port on a PC) also called USB host, and a slave (on flash disk, camera, ipod etc.) also called USB device. fit-PC2 has 6 USB host ports, but no USB device port.

[AoRaToS]

That's how I'd understood it, but that's a better explanation anyway!

[robertb]

I see. I thought that something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_cab ... C_with_USB would work, but, according to this section, it seems that Windows Vista doesn't support this mode of communication.

What about the concept of?:

• Vista PC->USB->crossover ethernet cable->fit-PC2

Would that work?

Or, what about using?:

• Vista PC->USB->firewire->USB->fit-PC2

In this case, I'd have to use something like http://www.analogx.com/contents/downloa ... /proxy.htm or http://www.delegate.org/delegate/ or http://www.solsoft.org/nsm/ or http://www.janaserver.de/start.php?lang=en&menue=home or a SOCKS5 server or proxy running on the Vista PC to reach the internet (in case Internet Connection Sharing is disabled).

[Superschüssel]

Maybe this is an option for you: http://www.2direkt.de/USB_20_Netzwerkkabel_LogiLink.htm .