Comment Collaborative sharing? (Score 2, Informative) 102
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Q: What happens when two people try to use the same device at the same time from two different computers?
A: Keep in mind that USB provides a connecting technology and not a network. Since the USB MultiSwitch Hub is a standard USB 2.0 device, only one person can use a connected device at a time. For example, I plug in my MultiSwitch Hub-enabled laptop, share your printer and/or get what I need from an external USB hard drive and then, when you want it back, we switch the devices back to you. If we want to toggle back and forth, we can do that. But only one of us can access the desired USB device at a time.
So its really collaborative sharing of the devices (I didnt expect anything different, really). If PC#1 mounts a USB drive to a drive letter, then PC#2 will not be able to use it until PC#1 unmounts its... is that correct?
The review reads like there is some PC/Mac software involved in the switching process, like you would have to do if you wanted to share an internal hard drive, or attached printer.
No mention of Linux though...
