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Make a PC Look Like a Firewire or USB Drive?
buckinm asks: "Here's the problem: I have a Windows laptop that I use for work. When I'm at home though, I much rather use my Mac. Since we use Cisco's VPN client at work, I can't mount the drives on the PC from the Mac. What I'd like to know, is there any software out there that would make the PC act like a Firewire or USB drive? I'd want to be able to mount it read/write. I know I could do some sort of rsync of thing when not connected to the VPN, but that seems like too much trouble. I wouldn't be against writing something like that, if I could get some idea of what is required to listen / respond to traffic on the Firewire or USB ports."
What is the problem?
You want to mount drives form a Mac?
Share the drives and mount them.
You want to mount vpn mapped drives from a Mac?
Same deal, share them and mount them. If you can't share them, them subst them and share the subst.
You want to access your network from the Mac via the laptop?
Enable routing on the laptop.
Better yet, why not install the VPN client on the Mac and leave the laptop out of the question?
What do you want?
Its a bad idea anyway.
Even Apple is dropping Firewire.
USB wins! Yea! What did it win?