How can I access an external hard drive on an outside network (my parents house)?

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locochriz1

I would like to access the music I have saved on their western digital external harddrive. The hard drive is network accessible from their house but I have moved out and need to know how I can access from my own house.

Answer
You could make it a virtual server on their router, but that is not very secure. you could use go to my pc on a pc on their network, you could install vpn capable routers at both locations and connect the two networks (make sure they have different addresses they cannot both be 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0)

keep in mind when you are pulling music from their network, that a dsl link has relatively slow upload speeds.

How do I put my external hard drive on my network?

mukwonago5

I own a 250GB External Hard Drive that connections via USB to any one of my three computers. How can I just connect the thing to my Linksys Router to network the hard drive without having to run it off a computer?

Answer
You need a device like this
http://trendnet.com/products/TS-U100.htm
a USB network server

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