Is it possible to share a hard drive connected by USB in a local network? I have an android smart TV with android 4.1, USB and LAN port. For file transfer I have a USB hard drive which I move from my computer to the smart TV, but it is kind of annoying. 

I would like to leave the hard drive connected to the smart TV, and share it in my local network so that I can access it from my gnu/linux machine.

Is this possible? Thanks in advance.
Thanks to Firelord for pointing me in the right direction, I played around with a SSH Server called SSHelper (it's FOSS and can be found on the play store), and got what I was trying to do.

The website has enough information to get it working, and it is very easy to set a passwordless login.

The only con I see, it is that is rather slow for big file transfers.