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Target disk mode on a lot of older Mac machines did that over Firewire. You could boot the machine into target disk mode and it would present its mass storage o
by EvanAnderson 2y ago
Target disk mode on a lot of older Mac machines did that over Firewire. You could boot the machine into target disk mode and it would present its mass storage over Firewire. It was pretty cool.
- dylan604 2y agoBut you couldn't use the machine at the same time. This would be like a SAMBA share, but over USB
- zokier 2y agoYou can connect two computers with usb and setup network between them, so you can just use smb/cifs. Microsoft has even handy tutorial for that: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/component-guidelines/usb4-interdomain-connections https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/co...
- dylan604 2y agoagain this is not the same thing has allowing a USB cable to connect from a PC to another device that is expecting a device that would present itself as a mass storage device
- _yb2s 2y agoI loved that feature- I could take my shitty old laptop into a university computer lab and boot a powerful brand new mac with fast internet from my hard drive- and use all of my software as if it was my own computer.