Access USB drive?

Can AIR check for an available USB drive, and access
read/write on the USB drive?

AIR can access a USB drive as it would any drive on the file
system.

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How can I access USB drive on AirPort Extreme with iPad

Good day. I recently purchased an AirPort Extreme, and am very pleased. I thought I would take advantage of the ability to store files and videos of my children on my USB drive on the router. Installation was flawless, however, i cannot access the USB drive with my IPad. I have seen several postings about this, am i correct in reading that this is not possible without a 3rd party app? If that is the case, could someone point me in the right direction?

Have you tried this? (And is the Airport new enough that you can call Apple?)
*Manually mounting Mac OS Extended (HFS+) volumes*
*From the Finder's Go menu choose Connect to Server.*
*Enter the AirPort Extreme Base Station's LAN IP address (by default 10.0.1.1).*
*Enter the username and password required to access the AirPort Disk(s).*
*Select the desired AirPort Disk(s) from the available Volumes.*
*Manually mounting FAT16/FAT32 volumes*
*From the Finder's Go menu choose Connect to Server.*
*Enter the AirPort Extreme Base Station's LAN IP address preceded by smb:// (for example, smb://10.0.1.1 )*
*Enter the username and password required to access the AirPort Disk(s). Leave the Workgroup field empty unless you have assigned one in AirPort Utility.*
*Select the desired AirPort Disk from the available CIFS (Common Internet File System) volumes*

How to access USB drive on e4200 remotely

Hello,
I recently bought a e4200 v2 and installed connect cloud. I have attached a USB drive to the router. I can connect to it by mapping a network drive on my windows 7 laptop. I can also access it as a media server through my iPad on the local wifi network. This way I can play the music on the USB drive through the iPad. The next thing I would like to accomplish is to be able to listen to the music on the USB drive through the internet (so remotely). Is that even possible?
Regards and thanks,
Steven

Hi there. That is actually possible. When you open your CCC go to USB Storage and set Enable FTP Server to ON. It is important as well to have a public internet ip address on the router which means coming from your internet service provider. For other cases, it is static so that it will not change. Are you by the way on Cable internet or DSL internet service? If you are example on DSL internet and your internet ip address from your ISP is private (192.168.1.4) then remotely accessing anything from your router is not possible you have to set the dsl modem to full bridge in order for it to work. To verify your internet ip address using CCC, go to Connectivity on the side panel and it comes up with a page and click on Internet Settings up on top. And say you wish to access the music files on your windows 7 laptop remotely, you have to set a static ip address to that computer and forward port 21 (default for ftp) on the router. Usually the address that you will type in on the address bar on your remote device is ftp://publicwanip. By the way, you may refer to the links below I found from Cisco's public kb site.
Setting up an FTP server behind a Linksys router
FTP Server Setup and Troubleshooting Guide

Accessing usb drive from a connection kit

I have a thing called 'HDMI & AV Connection Kit for iPad' I plugged it into my iPad 3 and put a USB flash drive into the USB hole. How do I access the USB flash drive from the iPad? I cannot find a way to navigate to it.
If anyone knows what I do, or what app I need to get to do this I would be very grateful
Thanks
Dave

You can't. Not in the way I think you want it.
The CCK will only work to import photos and videos. You could put some photos on a USB drive and then import htem into your iPad. Those photos must follow a very rigid naming convention (be in a folder named DCIM and have a file name of exactly 8 characters, like DSC_4483, same with movies)
there is no protocol to import documents or the such. and there is no protocol to export anything with the CCK.

E1550 - unable to access USB drive with Ubuntu

I am probably overlooking something real obvious but after screwing around for two hours I figure I need some help.
I am running Ubuntu 14.04. I have set up the E1550 router with an external drive that I formatted with the router utility. At this point I do NOT have an internet connection hooked to the router - I am not sure I want to for now. What I would like to do is to be able to access, wirelessly, a drive that multiple users can use to back up their important files onto.
I have tried using anonymous disk read/write access as well as creating shares. All the features seem to be setting up ok but at this point I have no clue how to access the drive.
I have tried using the Ubuntu files utility and then selecting 'browse network' followed by selecting 'windows network'. Alas, 'windows network' is an empty file with no drive present.
I have tried accessing the router wirelessly and also hard wired - no joy.
Am I maybe not acessing the drive properly through Ubuntu? Do I need to mount the remote drive rather than accessing it through the windows network ?
Thanks in advance for any pointers given !
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I am not expert with Ubuntu OS but have you tried to map the drive on your computer? I have no idea how to do that using Ubuntu but if you're using Windows or Mac, you can simply follow the steps from Linksys KB. It usually helps me when I am trying to enable file-sharing capabilities within my network.

Accessing USB drive on Home Hub 3 from Linux Mint

Hi,
I'm pretty new to Linux and am just trying out Mint on an old desktop. All is going fine except I can not access the external drive I have plugged into my Homehub 3.
If I use Dolphin (the file manager) to browse the network I can see a shortcut to 'Samba shares' from here I can go to 'Workgroup' but only my Win7 laptop and the Dell machine I am browsing from are listed.
There is an option to 'Add network folder' where I can select: "WebFolder(webdav)", "FTP", "Microsoft Windows netowrk drive", "Secure shell (ssh)" but I do not know the configuration details for any of these.
Can anyone help me to create/mount my USB network drive?
Thanks in advance.

C1Rider wrote:
Hello,
Try ftp 192.168.1.253
Cheers
Thanks. Though, not sure that was entirely what I was looking for.
Though, if I did want to access via ftp, what login details would I use?
thanks.

Air cannot access USB Drive on OS X

I am having a problem seeing a connected USB thumb drive in
the fileSystemTree under OS X. I can see the drive when i run the
app under Linux or Windows, however i just cannot find the
connected drive in OS X. anybody have any suggestions, or
workarounds?

ok so i found a work around for this issue. apparently in OS
X you can't see all the drives mounted when using air by default.
to get around this i just created a new file and resolved the path
to "file:///Volumes/" this takes you to the "volumes" folder to
which you can access all mounted drives on your system. if you are
using a filesystemtree, as i was, you can then set the "directory"
property to this newly created file. now you will see all your
mounted drives (usb storage drives included) in your
filesystemtree!

E3000 - Password must be re-entered to Access USB Drive

I have 2 WD USB external drives attached to my E3000 router on a home network with 3 computers. The computers have various results when they are started connecting to the external drive. Computer 1 connects without a password every time no problem; computer 2- the password must be entered every time. Computer 3 has two users. The first user connects every time without password; the second user must enter password every time. All users have admin rights on the computers.
I'd like all users to logon to external drive without password. Any suggestions?
Thanks

Thanks for your help. I followed your directs using the computer with two users. I used the user that doesn't work. With the new map, I checked "remember my password" and "reconnect on log on". When I re-booted the computer, I was asked to enter the password, so not working. Something interesting is when I log off user and log back on, the password is remembered, but not after a re-boot. Any other ideas?
Thanks
dibbler wrote:
Map the network drive again on the computer which is asking you for the user name and password.
Follow this link to map the network drive on the computer.
Make sure that you will check the box ' Remember my password'.
Also check the option ' Reconnect on log on'.

Can't access the Time Capsule Drive and attached USB drive

I bought the 3 TB Time capsule a couple of months ago. I am using it as my wireless router for a cable modem and have attached a USB drive (seagate) to the TC. I use the TC drive for time machine only. It worked well at first, for about the first month. Now I have trouble accessing the TC drive as well as the USB drive. The router function works perfectly fine. The drives show up in the Finder under Shared but cannot connect. Time machine does not back up because it says the back up drive is not available. In disc utility, the base station shows with the correct name, but I can't access it. It asks for a pasword but does not respond, so I cannot reboot it from my computer.
If I restart the TC (power off and on), it works fine, I can access both drives. However, this problem recurs, sometimes within a few days. I have also noticed, which may be related, that when I enter time machine (when everything is working fine), some of the back-ups are blank. There is a date and time but no actual back-up. Not sure if this is related.
I'm runing Mavericks 10.9.2 on an older MacBook, 15" late 2008 with 2.4 ghz dual core.

Hi Bob,
I updated Mavericks but still had the same problem, so I did a hard reset on TC, although I held the button for over 5 seconds and the amber light was flashing rapidly, it acted like a soft reset. Still no change so I rebooted my laptop. Still had an excellent internet connection but in AirPort utility, the TC is grayed out and says device not found. Light on TC was amber. So, I tried a hard reset again, but the light wouldn't flash at all. Unplugged it and after pluggin back in, acted like a hard reset. I restored previous settings and it is fine for the moment. Will keep you posted if it recurs. Hopefully it will not with updated Mavericks, but I get the feeling the problem may be the TC.

Can't access a USB Drive connected to Time Capsule from a Windows PC. Apple Care can't/won't assist. HELP!!!

Trying to get my Windows 7 PC to access the USB Drive that is connected to my Time Capsule. I have a Fat32 Formatted USB drive connected to a 2TB Time Capsule and I'm trying to get access to that drive from a Windows 7 PC. I've attempted to map the network drive (based on some 3-4 year old articles I could find online) but any time I access a file from the PC, the Time Capsule "freaks out" and disconnects all connections to it which forces me to unplug it to restart the Tim Capsule. I'm at a loss now as to what to do.
Spent a few hours talking to Apple about this and much more. Apple Care can't or won't help with this particular problem (the guy I talked to, as nice and helpful as he wanted to be, had no experience supporting their hardware in a Windows environment).
Someone has to know how to fix this so, PLEASE, help if you can!

First off, Archon23, what you want to achieve is possible. I have access to both my Time Capsule (TC) and the USB drive connected to it, from a Win. 7 and Win. XP machine.
Here is what I see from the Windows side of things:
     From My Computer - TC USB Drive (Y)
     From Windows HomeNet - Time Capsule:
Now getting there is the trick.
One caveat before proceeding: I am not well versed in Windows Networks, Windows Sharing and Firewall settings so some of the following may not be elegant, may not be absolutely required, and may not be the best way of getting there. But it is what I did to see both the TC drive and it's attached USB drive on the Windows side of my network..
1.) First, I added Airport Utility to the Inbound rules of Win 7 Firewall
While poking around my Network Sharing and Firewall settings trying to figure this out, I got a Pop-up recommending I do that. AND I did that. Oh, and while you are at it, make sure you have a Home network established.
2.) Next, on a hunch, I installed a USB Wi-Fi Adapter (under $20) to my Win PC, enabled that Wi-Fi connection and disabled my Ethernet connection. I was getting no where on this matter with my Ethernet connection to a DSL Gateway. But with a Wi-Fi connection to my AirPort Express Base Station, I made progress.
3.) Finally, while poking around my Network Sharing Center some more, one by one I started the various network device Setup Wizards in there, and Trouble Shooters, to find the elusive TC/USB devices in question...AND voila, it worked.   And it's stable, been this way for going on two weeks now.
Good luck.

Accessing a USB drive connected to Airport Extreme over Internet

Hello!
I have an iPad, I have an Airport Extreme with a USB drive connected and I have a MobileMe account.
And I'm aware that as yet there's no Back To My Mac for iPad.
Is there an easy way on the iPad to connect remotely to the USB drive, over the Internet?
I don't want to have to leave my MacBook Pro on whilst I'm travelling.
I've looked at Logmein and Filebrowser and iTeleport and can't find a way to do this.
Has anyone managed to suss this???
Many thanks....

I am not ware of any way of doing what you want since, to my knowledge, the AE does not function as a server to "serve" the contents of a connected USB drive. I have a LaCie NAS and that NAS includes a FTP server that I can access via my iPad via AirSharing HD.

Trouble accessing files on external USB drive after 10.6.8 update

Upgraded to Mac 10.6.8 on my MacBook Pro (I'm not a techie, but the "About This Mac" thingy says 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 - I assume that means something to somebody). Since the upgrade, I've been having problems accessing data on an external HD connected via USB - there were no issues before the upgrade, but now it's impossible to even navigate to a particular file or subfolder half the time, as the process freezes 95% of the time (every so often I am able to get through, for no obvious reason) - usually I just get what looks like an empty folder and a little spinning thing in the bottom right-hand corner. Sometimes when I do get to a file - say it's a ZIP file - I'll try to unZIP it and the process will hang; if I try to drag it to the desktop and unZIP it there, I can't get it to copy to the desktop, I just get the "copying files" box and a bar that never shows any progress, it just hangs at zero bytes out of whatever it might be.
Also having intermittent issues with another external USB drive, which is the one I use for Time Machine - about one in every five backup attempts is successful, the rest of the time I get a message saying the backup couldn't be performed.
I have two external FireWire drives as well, and I'm having no trouble with either of those - so I'm assuming the problem is USB-related (and 10.6.8 related, since none of this was happening before the upgrade).
So - I'm wondering if anybody else is having the same issues, and f there's a solution that a non-techie like me could handle that won't make blood come out of my ears.
Cheers!

Thanks baltwo - the PRAM tip was helpful. For some reason I still have trouble accessing a few files, I'm putting that down to them being somehow corrupted. Eric, thanks, but I tried using Disk Utility and the communication problems I was having with the drive meant that the repair couldn't be performed. I may try again now that that side of things seems to be running a little more smoothly. Anyway, thank you both!

How do i fix the "Unable to install Apple Mobile Device USB Driver" problem access denied

My new iphone 5c will not work with my laptop. The apple mobile usb driver will not install. 'Access denied' is the final message in the diaolgue box of the device load error. The device is recognized but there is the yellow triangle with the exclamation point on it indicating an error installing. I've removed itunes and its components as directed step by step ..... twice..... I've disabled antivirus, firewalls, and even created a second admin profile in hopes that it would load the driver. Nothing is working. The apple person was supposed to call me back after we were on the phone 90 minutes. Well.... I guess she did not. Help!!! I would love to sync my phone. Any ideas?

For general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down page in case one of them applies.
Your library should be unaffected by these steps but there is backup and recovery advice elsewhere in the user tip.
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How can I access the contents of the USB drive plugged into the Airport through Windows 8?

We have an equal amount of Macbook Pro's and Window's computers in our house and we just purchased the Airport Time Capsule 3TB. It works great, but, I want to plug in an external USB Hard Drive to the Airport and access it through the WIndows 8 computers. Within the Airport Utility, I can see the drive, but, I cannot access the drive through explorer in Windows 8.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance....

Tesserax said.....
The Time Capsule's file sharing service works best if the drive is formatted for HFS+, but it will also work with those formatted in FAT32.
The Time Capsule will share out this drive using the SMB protocol which is used by Windows or Linux-based computers.....
You said.....
I have to figure out if Windows 8 can read the drive if it is formatted with teh HFS+. I suspect not
To confirm again what Tesserax said.....Windows 8 can read and write to the HFS+ formatted network drive. FAT16/32 will also work.

Access rights on external usb drives gets reset.

Hi!
I use external usb-drivers for backup. I don´t wont other users on my iMac to access this drives, so I have set the access rights for "Everyone" to *"no access"*.
This works as intended, for a while... But for no reason what so ever, the access rights get´s reset to *"Read & Write"*. This might happen after a day or two..
Anyone experienced the same? Anyone know why this happens, and maybe have a solution to this problem?
Best regards
Geir.

Other users on your iMac can easily right-click on the external hard drive icon, get info and check the "Ignore ownership on this volume". Then everyone can read and write on the backup drive which probably isn't what you want. Theoretically, only users with admin rights can check that box, but there's plenty of ways to circumvent this.
If you want to restrict access more, lauch Disk Utility and create a new Read/Write disk image with encryption on the external drive. This will take some time to create and ask you for a password. I'd recommend a strong password (use the password generator that pops up) and let it be stored in your keychain. This way, Time Machine won't ask you to enter the password to back up or enter time machine. You should write down that password though in case the internal hard drive fails or your home folder (including the keychain) gets corrupted. You will be required to enter the password to do a full restore from Time Machine.
The downside of this is that the other users of your iMac can't use Time Machine at all.
Per default, the Time Machine rights are so that you can only access your own home folder plus the shared and public folder (and other non-standard folders within anyone's home folder as it has no specific access rights). Try logging in from another account or the guest account and see if you can access your user account's backup files in, say /Documents. It should deny access and not even reveal the folder's contents.

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