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Re: USB Host-Host cables

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On Friday 15 June 2018 06:37:57 Richard Owlett wrote:

> On 06/14/2018 08:54 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 02:50:51PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >>> and now you can access the other side via ssh and scp and
> >>> whatever.
> >>
> >> I've never used either "ssh" or "scp". *THEREFORE* I believe I have
> >> a reading assignment <grin>. After all, that was essentially what I
> >> was asking for :}
> >
> > I just picked them as common tools for logging in across IP
> > networks and moving files around. All of the Internet Protocol
> > is open to you, just as with any other ethernet-equivalent
> > interface.
>
> OK. I looked at the man pages for both. The focus on secure
> communication is, in *MY* case, is an undesired complication. Some
> preliminary web searches helped me to better describe my setup.
>
> The two machines are about a cubit apart.
> The USB Host-Host cable and related software addresses the physical
> connection.
> The second machine has no physical means to access the web. Thus
> removing the need for "secure" communication.

Are you saying this second  machine has no rj54 for a network cable?

Then that leaves a serial port, or possibly a usb to serial at the 2nd's 
location. This is a bit unusual, but between a linux or windows pc, and 
an old trs-80 color computer, has been done. The software is called 
drivewire, and it adds 14 i/o channels good for 115k kilobit speeds. 
This includes a channel dedicated for printing text, which I wrote a 
script for to pass it off to cups, a channel for general midi use, and 
which can be handed off to timidity, and 14 more channels which can be 
used as text terminals, or disk drives, including the ability to "mount" 
an  image of the coco's file system as if it was another floppy drive, 
but can be a 130 megabyte file.
  
> Just reading the DuckDuckGo results page caused me to realize that at
> an application level I'll want a client-server relationship [I haven't
> addressed the issue of which should be which.]

> My search string was [ +"linux" +host" +"ip network" ].
> It gave many attractive links.
> As a major motivation for this project is educational, can you suggest
> sources or search terms to survey:

> > common tools for logging in across IP networks and moving files
> > around.

Drivewire facilitates all that. Its GPL, written in jave so it should be 
pretty portable. But for machines other than the coco's, will need 
substitutes written for its output modules. On the coco's it runs over 
the bit banger port, so any machine with a bit banging serial port would 
be a candidate to become a drivewire client.  

> Thank you



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USB Host-Host cables Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-06-13 13:40 +0200
  Re: USB Host-Host cables Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-06-13 17:00 +0200
    Re: USB Host-Host cables Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-06-13 22:00 +0200
      Re: USB Host-Host cables Ulf Volmer <u.volmer@u-v.de> - 2018-06-13 23:10 +0200
      Re: USB Host-Host cables Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-06-14 16:00 +0200
        Re: USB Host-Host cables Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-06-15 12:40 +0200
          Re: USB Host-Host cables Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-06-15 14:20 +0200
            Re: USB Host-Host cables Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-06-15 21:10 +0200
          Re: USB Host-Host cables Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-06-15 16:10 +0200
            Re: USB Host-Host cables Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-06-16 13:40 +0200
              Re: USB Host-Host cables Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-06-17 20:20 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-06-18 00:10 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-06-18 03:30 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-06-19 02:40 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-06-19 05:30 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-06-19 13:50 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-06-19 13:50 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-06-19 14:10 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-06-19 15:20 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-06-19 16:50 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-06-20 03:50 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-06-19 14:50 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-06-19 15:20 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-06-21 04:00 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-06-21 05:20 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-06-21 10:40 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-06-21 17:50 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2018-06-21 17:50 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-06-21 23:40 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-06-21 07:30 +0200
                Re: USB Host-Host cables Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-06-18 14:50 +0200
  A Bibliography [Re: USB Host-Host cables] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-06-17 13:50 +0200

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