Accessing Airport Disk with OS 9

Does anyone know how I can access a network airport disk using OS 9?

You can't. To access the drive you need Mac OS X v10.4.8 or later.
www.apple.com/airportextreme/specs.html

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Accessing Airport Disk from Windows XP

I have a new Airport Extreme with an attached USB disk. I am able to access the disk from my MAC, but when trying to access it from my windows computer I get Unknown user, incorrect password or login is disabled (error 1203). I have tried configuring the disk access with base station password, disk password and user accounts. Have also tried guest login.
I have 2 XP machines. On one I see the airport disk, on the other I don't. On neither can I access the files. The one that totally does not work has no firewall installed. T
The application I am using is Airport base station agent on the PC. The airport utility on both PC works fine. Running 7.2.1 firmware on the base station
Help apprecited.

An update (and maybe some help to someone with a similar problem). I still can't get the airport base station agent to work, but I have succeeded in mounting the disk manually. Had some problem with the syntax, but it is \\172.16.1.1\diskname where 172.16.1.1 is the address of the airport base station and the discname is what it says it is. Don't try to add the name of the base unit into the path. I set it up with disc password (don't know if his makes a difference). And obviously if you have the airport in bridged mode, this will not help, since the unit will not have an IP address

Cannot Access Airport Disk on Time Capsule(Error Message 67)

Hi I'm having a few issues connecting to the Airport disk on my Time Capsule.
Every time I start my computer The Airport Base Station Agent says:"The Airport Disk "Nasim's Time Capsule" became available. What do you want to do? And I click "Connect with Password" I enter the correct password and I receive a message that says: "Unknown user,incorrect password, or login is disabled. Please retype the login information or contact the disk's administrator (67)."
Is this possible to fix?(I have reset it about 4 times, each time after I have set it up I try to connect ends up wit the same message)

Welcome to the discussions!
There are 2 passwords for the Time Capsule
One is a device password, which allows access to the TC. The other password is for your wireless network.
Might you be confusing these two? If you have not setup a device password, I believe that the default is "public".
Post back if you need more info.

Airport Disk with Bonjour

I have a Western Digital "MyBook" Tb drive that I used to have connected on my AirPort Extreme. I have a MacPro as well as 2 PC's that were sharing this MyBook disk just fine using Bonjour. The Bonjour app used AirPort Disks to automatically "offer" the disk as a resource when the computer restarts, or whenever it becomes available. I was sharing using accounts. i.e. the username and password had to be entered to access the shared resource.
Recently, the MyBook began to disconnect from the Bonjour for no apparent reason. I would log the disk back on and connectivity would be there, but then it would just disconnect again after 10 minutes or so.
So I connected the MyBook directly to the MacPro using firewire and just used the 'Sharing' utility and now access my files "\\MacPro\MyBook".
It doesn't disconnect anymore.
But I do notice a file write delay every once in awhile.
Can someone tell me which method is preferred and what pieces need to be ironed out for most efficiency?

Does the new Airport Express N (I acquired one recently) have Airport Disk functionality? I tried to connect an external USB hard drive to my Airport Express but nothing shows up within Airport Utility.
Sorry, but no. The new 802.11n AirPort Express Base Station (AXn), like its predecessor, will only support a single USB printer on its USB port.

Cannot access airport express with airport utility...

I've been using my old Airport Express, since it has a modem, to access my dialup service , I need to change the access number but Airport Utility reports that it can't access the AE with this version...(It sees it fine)...what do I need to do to change the number? I've tried several different older versions of AU and get the same result....

Try the direct link.
http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1482/en_US/AirPortUtility56.dmg
I have been having some issues with the apple support and discussions area with my ISP.. something seems to be not compatible.
There is a free method .. since you need to pay for Pacifist.. there is a simpler free utility but it does the job .. unpkg
This is my version of Tesserax's which is of course just fine as well.
How to load 5.6 into ML.
1. Download 5.6 for Lion.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Click to open the dmg but do not attempt to install the pkg.. it won't work anyway.
Leave the package open on the desktop so you can see the file. AirportUtility56.pkg
2. Download and install unpkg.
http://www.timdoug.com/unpkg/
Run unpkg on the desktop.. If your Mac refuses to run the software, because it wasn’t downloaded from the Apple store, go to security in preferences and allow other software to work.. this is limitation of trade methinks. You can set back later if you like.
Now drag the AirPortUtility56.pkg file over to unpkg.. and it will create a new directory of the same name on the desktop.. in finder, open the new directory, drill down.. applications, utilities .. there lo and behold is Airport utility 5.6 .. drag it to your main utilities directory or just run it from current location.
You cannot uninstall version 6 (now 6.3 if you updated) so don't try.. and you cannot or should not run them both at the same time.. although I have had no problems when doing so.
For screen shots see this post.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4668746?tstart=0

Leopard and Airport Disk with accounts

Question:
Has anyone have the latest firmware update on the AEBS-N and with Leopard OS with Airport Disk accounts working?
If you have downgrade firmware on AEBS-N with Airport disk set up with accounts how are you making it work?
At this time I am only getting my hard drive and not accounts showing on left sidebar.
The only way I been able to change accounts if I do a manual "connect to server" (alt-K). First I eject the shared drive on the left sidebar. Then click Alt and K key at the same time and typed in one of my accounts and password in. There must be a better way.
Message was edited by: Higuchem

I have done that, but my problem is not that I cannot see my connected drive it is when I create accounts it still only shows the shared folder on that connected drive. So, I created two password protected accounts "A" and "B" and then there is a shared folder. Now prior to leopard when I was connected I would be able to see the shared folder and my respective folder, "A". Now when I connect I only see the share drive. This is a problem because I have two users in my household and I want to back information to each respective accounts/password protected folders but that is not happening because all we see is the shared folder.
What I saw prior on my drive connected to AEBS. A "SHARED" folder, "USERS" folder which contained the separate folders/accounts created through AEBS.
Now all I see is the "SHARED" folder.

Unable to access AirPort Disk

I have a 250GB WD Mybook hooked up via USB to my AEBS (Running 7.2.1).
I see the name of my base station in the Finder under SHARED but if I double click on it I simply see "Connecting..." at the top of the window and it goes nowhere. If I click on Connect As... I also get nothing. I have tried unplugging the drive and plugging it back in as well as restarting the base station. I can see the disk under Disks in the Airport utility so I'm not sure whats going on.
I bought this AEBS yesterday after being told in the store I should just be able to hook the disk up and go. This is INCREDIBLY frustrating

OK, I seem to finally have mine working- I basically put all of Garret's tips together at once:
1. Unplugged HD from AEBS, plugged HD directly into MacBook Pro.
2. Disk mounted and I copied some files to it.
3. Unplugged HD from MBP (I couldn't actually eject it, but that seems to be a separate Leopard issue not related to this, so I didn't worry about it.)
4. Double-checked Airport Utility settings- it was set to allow Guest access, and use base station password for connecting as a user.
5. Plugged HD back into AEBS.
6. Relaunched (Force Quit) Finder.
7. Voila! Finder now connects as Guest, and I also can connect as a user with the password. Either way, I can open files, etc. like normal.
It seems to still be working so far (knock on wood). I didn't try accessing the HD from my PC yet.
Thank you Garret for your help!

Airport Extreme with Airport USB Disk issues - Dont give up just yet...

Just a heads up for anyone who is having issues with accessing an Airport disk with the latest firmware.
After calling Apple support as i was convinced my AEBS was faulty, i have since discovered that if and HFS+ disk cannot be varified and repaired successfully in Disk Utility, it would lock up my AEBS totally. My wireless would drop out and nothing would work any longer untill I turned the power off and on again.
I was able to correct the issue with the USB HDD by booting with the Leopard CD and using Disk Utility in Mac OS X setup. Trying the same thing when booting from the Macbook HDD would result in a 'failed to unmount' error.
Before anyone has a fit and trys to return their AEBS with a similar issue i suggest trying the above or another USB HDD. It just might save you the $49 that i paid as a result of being out of the 90 days of support on my AEBS and Macbook.
FYI, contrary to the technical requirements i was sent by the Apple service agent i spoke with, my Airport Disk IS working with 2 partitions. 1 HFS+ and the other a Windows partiton (i cant remember if its FAT32 or NTFS. My HDD is at home)
I have a collegue at work who was having similar issues with a FAT32 USB HDD on his AEBS but we have just discovered that the HFS+ HDD that i used to test my AEBS with, worked fine on his also. We are yet to find out if his HDD is faulty at this stage. Ill keep you all posted on what we find.
SO, at this stage it would be resonable to say that the AEBS doesnt handle corrupted HDD's very well. (IE it totally locks up and the wireless drops out)

That used to be a problem on 7.2.x. Now 7.3.1 can fix some minor disk problems (such as disk not unmounted correctly).
Since I upgraded to 7.3.1, I haven't once taken my USB hard drive out to be repaired on my Mac.

Data corruption with Airport Disk file sharing

There is another long thread on the Airport Disk, and I am not sure if this is the same problem. My situation is that my file server died recently, and I am looking for its replacement. Airport Disk with my new base station appears ideal because I have a 300GB disk from my dead file server and a USB disk enclosure. I connected the disk to my iMac and formatted it to HFS. While still connected to my iMac, I copied over my iTunes library. This was the second time trying out the airport disk, so I created /Shared and /Users/username to work with file sharing with accounts. I then ejected the disk and connected to my airport base station (gigE, 7.2.1 firmware). My first test was to run a recursive diff between the two iTunes libraries. There were some files that differed, so I ran the diff again and a different set of files were identified as differing! I disconnected all users and moved the disk back to my iMac. I ran the diff again, and there were no differing files!
I haven't yet had time to investigate more, and I am wondering if others have seen similar symptoms.
Dan

I have the same issue.
Plus, in my case, two disks appear on my desktop, even though I have no partition. One is named the same as my disk, the other is named the same as the user account for the disk on the Airport Extreme.

Airpot Disk with Windows 7

Hi
I am having issues accessing Airport disk using Windows 7 and the settings using local policy about sending NTLM responses is not helping at all. The connections drops out and frequently but clicking on file system it works again.. for a while. Sometimes when I click sub folder it goes back to the root.
Much appreciated if any of you have got it working..
Thanks

Hi everyone,
i've the problem with Windows 7 Home Premium too. After 60 Minutes in the AppleCare-Hotline i only got the info, that Windows 7 is not supportet at the moment and they have no information on an firmware-upgrade in the near future. So i've only the option to Downgrade to Windows Vista or don't use my File-Server-Disks until the next firmware-upgrade (hope that the windows7 support comes with this file).
Downgrading the Extreme to 7.3.2 as mention isn't an option because i've the dual-band extreme, which didn't support firmware-version below 7.4.
Thats not really great

Airport Extreme (last generation) and Airport disk

Simple quesion (I hope)...
does anyone know if one can do airport disk with a last generation (802.11g) AEBS?
Thanks,
Bill

Afraid not. The USB port on that generation is for printer share only.

TM backups to password protected Airport disk

I had trouble getting the following configuration working:
TM backups
to an Airport disk
with the Disk Password (as opposed to Airport password) option
of two Macs (iMac and UMBP)
When I went from Airport PW to Disk PW, the Mac I ran Airport Utility on worked fine, the other got a Backup Disk No Available error. Yes, I deleted the TM plist and restarted.
When I went back to Airport PW, the Mac I did it from worked fine, the other required a combination of mounting/unmounting the disk, restarts, plist deletion, and changing of the backup disk in TM Preferences, but eventually it worked.
The first case (Disk PW) never worked for both machines.
Has it worked for anyone?

Yes, USB connected to Airport Extreme.
Drive is formatted correctly and worked for 2 weeks. Problem came when I tried to switch from Airport PW to disk PW. I did this from the UMBP and I could not get the iMac to work, kept saying "Disk is not available." Tried deleting TM plist, tried restarting, tried manually mounting drive and sparse image.
When I went back to Airport PW, did so from iMac, then could not get UMBP to work, same Not Available error. After restarting, deleting plist, mounting/unmounting, and some other unremembering things, it is now working again.

Airport Disk lag

When it was Tiger, I could watch a movie in my Airport disk.
Now in Leopard, it is very laggy and I can't watch a movie.
I think this is a bug which can be temporarily fixed if I do something...
Any help will be great! Thanks.

Same here… I have my iTunes library on an external LaCie that's connected into the Airport. And the content on their is also synced into AppleTV. In Tiger this worked fantastically.
Ever since I upgraded to Leopard, I am randomly getting the grey exclamation in iTunes for tracks iTunes "can't find" - but when you double click iTunes plays. In everything too, there is lags when you start playing songs, video, podcasts… essentially anything that is on the Airport Disk.
I was so excited to hear about Time Machine when it came out because of this setup I had with Airport Disk. But, to then that functionality dropped out or disappeared at some point before the final release which leads me to believe that there is some unresolved issue with the Airport Disk functionality and Leopard. The way Airport Disk is behaving now in iTunes is further evidence.
I really hope there is a fix soon for this.
It's getting so the only reliable way to watch my video or listen to my audio content is on AppleTV because there is no lag when the content resides on it's hard drive - which is a pain, as I used to love not being tethered to one device in one area of my house. The way this is behaving in Leopard is almost making me want to go back to Tiger… Cause I sure as heck don't have enough space on the hard drive to put the music and video back on to it.
It feels like we've gone two steps backwards with Airport Disk with Leopard.

Can Not Access Airport Utility or USB Disk Over Wireless with WEP Enabled

I have an AirPort Extreme base station, with several Windows XP (SP2) machines connected to it. I am able to access the base station through the AirPort Utility (v5.1) using the machines that are connected to the base station via ethernet cables. However, when I attempt to configure the base station using a wireless connection on my Win XP laptop, it says that no base stations can be found. It will also not connect to the USB hard drive (no hards drives appear in the AirPort Disk Utility.) I AM able to browse the web via the wireless connection however. When I turn off WEP, the laptop is able to see the base station through the AirPort Utility, so I know it has something to do with the security, but I have not been able to narrow the problem down beyond that.
Any suggestions?
Windows XP

Hi,
I'm having a similar problem. I am using the airport extreme with a MacBook and a PC running windows XP, The MacBook is the computer that I used to configure the settings in the airport utility for the base station. I set it up this way with the assistance of an Apple representative. When I view the disk tab in the airport utility, I can see the USB drive connected to the base station. I can also see the USB drive on the desktop of the Mac. On the PC however, I can't seem to locate the USB drive anywhere. I can't see it anywhere in explorer and the drive doesn't show up when I use an application and attempt to open a file. Does this sound similar to your experience and were you able to resolve the problem?

How do I set up Airport Extreme Airport Disk as Central Media Storage when I have Directv, Windows and Mac needing access?

I have an always on PC in my living room, but I want the macbook pro to have the same media without taking up the space. iTunes Shared lacks the sorting features of having the library directly associated. What I want to do is setup a hard drive on my AEBS to house all my media.
I have a 120GB SSD on my PC in the LR. (with an 80GB drive I may put with it for extra space if needed)
A 250GB MBP
A 2TB drive (installed in a USB/eSATA enclosure)
A 1TB drive
A 500GB usb WD Passport
I use iTunes for Movies, Music, Podcasts
I use Picasa for Pictures
I want to house these large libraries on the AEBS Airport Disk and have the MBP and PC access the media. I ideally want iTunes to identify that as the iTunes Media Library for both the MBP and PC. I haven't found a good run down of how this would work. Especially since I want to make sure Directv can access the media as well as the PC and MBP.
I will store all my media on the 2TB, I will use the 1TB to backup all the media in a safe, and the 500GB I want to split for Time Machine and Windows backup. With all my media off those drives, 500GB should be enough space to keep backups for a while to restore programs and what not from.
Thanks for any help.

I want to house these large libraries on the AEBS Airport Disk and have the MBP and PC access the media. I ideally want iTunes to identify that as the iTunes Media Library for both the MBP and PC. I haven't found a good run down of how this would work.
Please check out the following TUAW article to see if it will help provide some additional details.
I will store all my media on the 2TB, I will use the 1TB to backup all the media in a safe, and the 500GB I want to split for Time Machine and Windows backup.
You may want to revisit your strategy to using an AirPort Disk for Time Machine backups and that is because Apple does not support this. If your backups are critical to you, then I would strongly recommend that you reconsider using another destination source option.

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