PC's + External Hardrives and PS3

Last night I took a break playing the guitar and I decided to see what I could do (network and data storage wise) with the PS3. I set up my wireless router with DHCP (of course). I connected my laptop, PS3 and PSP to the network. I pinged each Sony device from the PC to make sure they could see each other, which they could. Now, I know Windows is DOS, and PSP's and PS3's run off of a version of Linux, but I thought I'd give it a shot. I've tried to telnet into the hard drive in multiple ways (even using Putty and using RAW and SSH) to no avail. I even tried getting in over port 80 (http) still, nada. Tried to do the same thing from the PSP and PS3 to the PC using the Internet Browser, again didn't work. I didn't expect much, especially when one speaks Greek and the other speaks Russian :: shrugs::

My question is if anyone has found a program they could use to accomplish what I've tried to accomplish?

Another question I have is I hooked up my 4GB Thumb Drive to the PS3, and obviously it saw it. Then for the hell of it I hooked up my Seagate Pro 500GB hard drive up to it, and it didn't see it. I did the same for another external hard drive (180 GB) with the same result as the Seagate. Anything Im doing wrong, or is it just not going to work except for small Thumb Drives?

Doing this from a windows xp system.
Step 1: Plug your external hd up to pc and turn it on.
Step 2: go to start>my computer>and then find your external hd
Step 3: Right click on the external hd and find format.
Step 4: Once format has been selected change the drive to Fat32
Step 5: Format the drive as Fat32.

Now your all set.

Now in order for your files to show up you need three folders created before adding your files to each.


MUSIC
PICTURE
VIDEO


These three folders are created to store your music, pictures, and video content. Make sure you have each folder in all capital letters.

Now your good to go for adding all your media from your pc to the external drive or saving stuff from ps3 to the external drive.

[Kanadier]

sweet, you know, I never could quite figure this out before. lol!