Access USB over LAN ?

Once plugged in, USB drives act exactly the same as normal internal hard drives. You can create network shared from them in the very same way you do with normal drives and folders.
Then in the remote machine you just access them like \\computer\usbsharedfolder (with the names being the computer name's that has the pendrive plugged and the folder name as you've setted it in the shared folder dialog).

Alejandro85 said:

Once plugged in, USB drives act exactly the same as normal internal hard drives. You can create network shared from them in the very same way you do with normal drives and folders.
Then in the remote machine you just access them like \\computer\usbsharedfolder (with the names being the computer name's that has the pendrive plugged and the folder name as you've setted it in the shared folder dialog).

I have had issue with this once before, and I'm not sure, but I think it may have just been my configuration at the time, but I've never been able to make that work. If I swapped out drives (in this case, Seagate FreeAgents) I had to reshare the drive letter out to the network. It was always a pain in the bottom because everyone else had to then re-search for the shared folders.

Haven't needed to use the drives in this manner in a long while because I got a newer (Seagate) drive with 5 times the old capacity (which, for some strange reason, resisted sharing for the first couple attempts).

I tried this on run :
\\name of pc\driver letter$
Worked fine with the "C" but it didn't work for the removable disk ?

Have you tried mapping the networked drive to a drive letter on whichever machine you're trying to access from?

i.e. net use s: \\PC Name\drive letter

ill try it and ill reply :)

didn't work
Windows cant access \\PC Name\drive letter

any another idea ?

Well, I have mine on a wireless router with USB port to make this pain free. Just \\router's ip on explorer address bar and voila.

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