Thread: Seagate 80Mb Portable HDD

Apparently office works have Maxtor 320gig externals for $199 or 500gig for $299 until the 21st.

http://www.officeworks.com.au

Martyn

I've got an infrant ready NAS... but only use it for backup purposes, all files are kept on the local machines and push to the NAS box daily. I pull out a drive from the RAID array weekly and swap it for the previous version and the image re-builds itself. the spare drive goes to work as an offsite backup

smooth sailing for over 3 years... before that I always kept a ghost image of my hard drive in one of a pair of 5 1/4 inch bay removable caddys, swapped monthly and the current image kept at work...

if I was in the terrabyte range, this would be impossible! but still currently under 300gb

Originally Posted by p38arover

I'm using HP Web JetAdmin but can't get the PCs to see it. I can see the printer from the desktop when accessing it using JetAdmin but I can't add it as a printer

I used them a lot a few years ago I seem to remember you can download a small program/utility from HP to help you configure your printer in a workgroup.
I can't remember what it's called though.

try looking here they have some low price items of interest

http://www.oo.com.au

This post seems to have drifted on to a reference to network printing which may not be quite etiquette but since you started the whole thread, Ron, I guess it's OK to reply on this score (apologies to all if it's not ).

HP publish a lovely little network printer discovery app called hpjsi_en.exe

You'll find it at ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib/software7/COL1670/ja-7489-6/hpjsi_en.exe

I use it when I travel to our regional offices around the country to hook up to our networked HP printers and it has saved me a lot of grief.

Good luck!

Hi Graham,

Coincidentally, I've got it working.

Don't ask me why or how. I had to disconnect the router so Optus could come and check my connection - I've been getting transmission speeds of 1 bps - yes, one bit per second - on my cable broadband of late.

They found that the Optus tech who had connected the cable TV 3 weeks ago has screwed it up.

When I reconnected the router, the flaming printer set-up worked.

I added the printer using the priter wizard and it just worked. I'm using HP Web JetAdmin as the control software.

Don't ask me. Plurry computers.

Oh, I tried that link and it no workee.

Ron

Hi Ron,

Glad to hear you've got your printer working again. This networking thing is all done with smoke and mirrors and sometimes the problems are unfathomable.

You're right about the link I gave you not working when you click on it - probably because it goes to an ftp site. It works OK for me if I copy it and paste it into the URL bar in both Firefox 1.5 and IE7 - try that and you should be asked to save the file directly you hit go, without a new web page opening. It's a useful little app and has made life much simpler for me as I travel to our various offices.

Sorry for distracting you from the main thrust of your thread. Personally I use a USB Flash Drive for short term file transfer - I've just bought a 2GB Astone one and passed my 512MB Flash Drive to my wife. I recall that we used to use black plastic things in thin rectangular packs to achieve the same thing years ago - now I'd be lucky to have a file that's less than 1.44MB to transfer.

I back up my company notebook to my personal desktop's HDD over the home network using the MS app "Sync Toy" which is a kind of beefed up version of the Briefcase app. It's great because it sorts out which file is the latest version and overwrites whichever is the oldest in either direction (although you can choose uni-directional synchronising as well). You'll find it in the downloads section of the Micro$oft web-site and it should work with your portable drive no differently to the way I use it over the network.

Good luck.