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Direct PC Connection

So you go to a friend's place and you'd like to share some files. How ?

USB bridge cable

Unknown. they seem to require both ends to use the same software, and generally runs on Windows-only machines. TBD.

Ethernet to Ethernet

Option1: Standard Ethernet cable

Your friend has a network card. Yay ! Just connect using a standard or crossover Ethernet cable. The cable supplied with the Linkstation is a standard Ethernet cable.

The reason you don't need a crossover cable is that on the LS1 you can change a crossover switch to mimic the crossover cable, and on other Linkstation models, they are "auto-sensing" so will automatically create the crossover if needed.

In case you'd want to create a crossover cable anyway, for fun, here's howto: The image below shows the pin-layouts for the standard network crossover cables. The differences are just the colourt of the cables.

If you have...

568A on both ends, then it's a straight through cable.

586B on both ends, then it's a straight through cable.

586A on one end and 586B at the other, then it's a crossover cable.

<add crossover how-to here>

Option2: Standard Ethernet cable and usb network card

Your friend does not have a network card, but has usb ports. No problem ! Buy a usb network adapter and connect on his/her PC. An example is the Linksys USB200M 10/100 USB2.0 network adapter, fairly inexpensive.

Likely required: Static IP setup on the Linkstation

as per lb_worm's suggestion, on your Linkstation, change those 2 files:

1) set the /etc/network/interfaces to:

1. Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or
2. /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information.

auto lo iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.11.160 netmask 255.255.255.0 geteway 192.168.11.1 network 192.168.11.0

auto eth0:auto iface eth0:auto inet dhcp

2) Edit the dhcp config file /etc/dhcpc/config to:

1. Config file for dhcpcd.

case ${INTERFACE} in eth0)

1. Uncomment this to allow dhcpcd to set the DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf
2. If you are using resolvconf then you can leave this commented out.

SET_DNS='yes'

1. Uncomment this to allow dhcpcd to set the NIS domainname of the host to the
2. domainname option supplied by DHCP server.
3. SET_DOMAIN='yes'

1. Uncomment this to allow dhcpcd to set hostname of the host to the
2. hostname option supplied by DHCP server.
3. SET_HOSTNAME='yes'

1. Uncomment this to allow dhcpcd to set the NTP servers in /etc/ntp.conf
2. SET_NTP='yes'

1. Uncomment this to allow dhcpcd to set the YP servers in /etc/yp.conf
2. SET_YP='yes'

1. Add other options here, see man 8 dhcpcd-bin for details.

OPTIONS='-d -t 30 interface eth0:auto'

1. Add other interfaces here

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esac

The -d option will generate some debug.

Likely required: Static IP setup on the PC

Windows XP: Start->Control Panel->Network Connections. Right click on your network adapter(likely called "Local Area Connection" ->Properties

Select "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)

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