On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 07:11, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2020-07-23 at 20:46 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>
> On 2020-07-23 19:24, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > Is there some reason you don't want to use nfs?  That's the easiest
> > typical way to share the drive.  Or as someone else mentioned,
> > depending on how you want to use it, sshfs could be even easier.
> .
> /I do use the NFS for putting data where I can transfer it between
> computers at times. I probably should not have asked this question here,
> I just didn't give it enough thought. Just thought there should be a
> better way than using adapters that are mainly intend for connecting
> portable computers to ethernet. I have no problem using it as it is,
> just annoyed that it is not on both computers .../

As Samuel said, to be accessible from more than one place without
switching plugs it either has to be a server (e.g. a NAS) or plugged
into a server (your PC).

If the two PC's are close together there are USB switches, but I assume
you would need to manually umount the USB drive before switching:

From an Amazon blurb:   "This USB Switch 4 Port device allows up 
to 2 users to share 4 USB 3.0 peripheral devices, such as printer,
scanner,mouse,keyboard or usb dicsk [sic] etc without the need to 
constantly swap cables or set up complicated network sharing 
software. It's a great [sic] for use at home if you have multiple PCs
or Macs."
 
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George N. White III