Accessing/Mounting AirportExtreme Disks

The Airport Extreme includes the utilities for OS X as well as Windows and obviously advertises available disk shares via Bonjour, but has anyone found a method by which to access or mount a shared drive to other operating systems? In my case, I have Solaris, FreeBSD, and other Unix systems. It would be nice to get an NFS-like connection that could be more universally accessed.

Looking at the sources of "OpenSolaris" I found out that opening hard disks without a valid partition table is possible specifying the O_NDELAY flag. This works on Solaris 9, too.
However I found out that my USB hard disk has a hardware problem (does not work with Windows XP) so I cannot test if reading the hard disk works.
Martin

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How do I enable normal users, or preferably only one user, to access these partitions?
semi-newbie :?

_Gandalf_ wrote:
I usualy mount with both suggestion above, actually i need full read acess to all users logged in the machine so i do
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AFP does not allow to access mounted disk-image on server

I am running a Mac Mini as file and media server.
With Lion installed, it was possible to access mounted image files on the server via afp.
Since I upgraded my MacBook Air and the mac mini to Mountain Lion the mounted disk-image is not anymore available as a network drive when accessing the server.
I figured out that I could still access the mounted image file by accessing the server via SMB. This requires however to connect to the server via CMD K, which is more inconvenient than to just click on the server in the finder sidebar.
It seems that Apple changed the AFP setup for Mountain Lion and that this is an error.
Hope they get it quickly fixed in 10.8.1!

I can't even see my mounted images via SMB... that *****!

Can't access/mount hard drive, Permission denied message in Disk Utility.

Hello,
Need some help here. I was upgrading from 10.4 to 10.5. I got an error message when I tried to upgrade from the DVD. My hard drive had an exclamation mark by it and I was told I would need to erase it in order to install. When I tried quitting the installer, I had to go through startup disk to pick my Hard drive, which showed it had 10.4 installed. When I tried restarting, it would only boot off of the DVD. I checked startup disk again, but my hard drive was now not visible. I have a tower with a back-up system on it. When I picked it, it started up fine. I went under disk utility and the hard drive is listed, but is ghosted/grayed out. Repair & Verify Disk permissions are ghosted back as well.When I try to repair or verify disk, it says it can't it gives me the disk number and sector number and Permission Denied. I poked around on disk utility for info, and it looks like it doesn't have a mount point anymore and under permissions, it says that they are not enabled. So, apparently the access privileges have been erased & I don't know how to mount my disk again. I'm assuming I need some sort of commmand line in Terminal to restore my priveleges or get it to auto-mount. I do not want to erase my drive to upgrade. All my applications are on that drive. Please help!
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See if Niel's User Tip can help you: I accidentally set a disk's permissions to No Access .

How do I mount a disk image that won't open?

I have an external drive Samsung 500 GB that was failing. I think my MacBook Air (10.6.8) caused it to fail because it wouldn't allow me to eject the disk even though I forced quit all programs. I eventually had to just unplug the drive and this caused the external disk to fail as it had not been ejected properly. Not my fault. It's the MBA's fault for not letting me eject the disk. Now the Samsung disk won't mount properly and I get a message that the drive is failing and I should save the data.
Anyhow, I used the free version of Data Rescue 3 to try and save the data on the failing Samsung 500 GB drive and move it onto a brand new Toshiba 1 TB drive.
I was unable to use the normal scanning function of Data Rescue 3 as the hardware of the drive was too damaged, and so I used the clone function on Data Rescue 3 to clone the data onto a non-failing hard drive, with the intent of restoring the data later.
I am not sure if I was successful in making the disk image. It hung up at the 99.6% point for about 12 hours when I decided to give up on it, and I shut down Data Rescue so I could eject the hard disks.
However, it would not let me do it. I tried force ejecting but still I could not eject the disks.
I ended up just unplugging the drives. I think the Samsung drive died almost completely then because it made a whole lot of clicking noises after that (it was only making a few clicking noises before that).
Anyhow, I plugged the Toshiba 1 TB drive into the computer again and used Data Rescue to scan the drive with the disk image on it to see if I could detect files on that drive.
It opened up the structure and I was able to see that most or all of the files were there (abbout 450GB of data) just from seeing the information about the files in the structure tree - the labels of the files (file type labels such as jpg, mp4 etc) and the size of the files, although I could not open up the files to check all of them.
I tested out the restore function of Data Rescue by downloading one file (<10MB) file. I am using the free version and can download one file for free to test things out.
It worked and I was able to save that file onto a second external drive (Western Digital 500 GB) I had plugged in. I had bought this drive just to do the data rescue.
So I think the files are salvageable and the disk image is OK.
However, when I tried to open the disk image in Disk Utility, by opening it as the source and choosing the WD drive as the destination I could not open it. I got an error message. I can't remember what the message was.
I tried just opening the disk image in Finder by just clicking on the disk image but it won't mount.
Is that because my hard drive doesn't have enough space? My Desktop on the MBA only has 12 GB free and the WD drive has only 500 GB on it even though the disk image is about 501 GB.
I don't know why the disk image is that size when the failing Samsung drive only had 450 GB of data on it.
Anyway, what should I do to mount the disk image?
I want to mount the disk image so that I can copy or move the files from it to another external drive so that I can save those files.
Is it because the WD is only 500 GB or does it mean there's a problem with the disk image I made?
Should I try Carbon Clone Copy? I use that to make backups of my MBA internal HDD though I have never used it for opening or making disk images.
I have never dealt with disk images before except for dmg files of applications downloaded from the internet.
I am trying to avoid using Data Rescue 3 as I have to pay for it and if there is a free option, such as Disk Utility, CCC or other, I want to try it to restore the data in the disk image.
Sadly, I think the Samsung drive is ruined beyong repair as it's making a lot of clicking sounds and doesn't mount properly in Disk Image and I get a message that it's beyond repair or something like that in Disk Utility.
So I am relying on the disk image I made on the Toshiba drive to restore my files.
(I think it was the last movie file that caused the problem because it was when I was trying to copy it onto the Samsung external drive, all the problems began - hanging up when copying it, not being able to eject the Samsung disk, causing hardware issues on Samsung disk and getting warning messages on Disk Utility.)
BTW, I learned how to eject a drive when it won't eject the normal way, I have to use command window and type in commands, but that's another post ....
Any advice?
I am thinking of going out and buying a second 1 TB external drive so that I have a disk with enough space to open the 501GB disk image on it, just in case that was the sole problem.
However, I am not sure that is the case, and I think there may be a problem with the disk image or I am not going the right way about opening it.
Thanks for any advice.

I think I've found the solution to this problem.
http://superuser.com/questions/19426/im-unable-to-mount-a-dmg-getting-a-no-mount able-filesystems-error
I am following the instructions here:
I ran into a similar situation. I did what simonair suggested and I received a message in Terminal that Volume mounted successfully. However It did not help me access the mounted Volume neither was I able to confirm the mounted Volume. Nor was I able to mount the image using Disk Drill or even scan through. Nothing succeeded.
Here is what I did to solve my problem. I see that in this post some suggested that we should convert name.dmg to writable file. I used the command from Terminal to convert but was not successful. INSTEAD alternatively, I used Disk Utility, attached the Volume (yes I got the same message again, ''no mountable system files'' however, Disk Utility nevertheless attached the image, which I was able to do before anyways. This time, I selected it and then clicked New image, and then selected image format read/write, not the compressed option. I created a new image. This time this image was writable however, it still would not mount using Simonair's solution. However, this time I was able to scan it with Disk Drill with exact file locations and folder hierarchy as I had. Recovering all from thereon was a breeze. Just remember: when you create new image of an attached volume and chose not compressed but read/write, you need to have a disk with exact amount of space that totals the total space allocated within that name.dmg file (not the amount of space the data takes). Mine was huge, and luckily I had an external disk with enough space to do that and it took about 5 hours for about 400GB of disk allocation. Good luck.
And so far it seems to be working. Even though the volume is grayed out on the left side of Disk Utility, I am still able to select it as the source for making a new disk image. I chose Read and Write and no compression.
The only thing I might be doing differently is that instead of choosing the disk image as the source, I chose the volume as the source. The volume is grayed out, but the disk image is not.
It seems to be working all right. Keep my fingers crossed.
If this doesn't work, I will use Data Recovery 3 as a last resort.

12 hours...no result -- Mounting Network Disk

I am writing to you in a frustrated mood. But fortunately still sane.
I am trying to remote access my Airpot Exrtreme usb drive on windows 7 and mac lion.
I feel I am almost there, just can't get the little details.
I am confused with the port mapping part of Airport Extreme. I am not sure to use "personal file sharing", "windows sharing", "web sharing".
Also, in windows, do I just mount the drive or do I need to add a "network place"
I followed the instructions here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15283514#15283514
You do not need the AirPort Utility installed on your computer in order to access a shared drive from either a remote location or on the local network. This utility's primary purpose is for administering the base station.
You will need to both enable File Sharing and configure the AirPort for Port Mapping. It is pretty much described step-by-step in the article you referenced in the beginning of your post.
Ok, so let's go over the basic steps to see if anything was missed.
Start the AirPort Utility > Select the AEBSn, and then, note the IP address shown.
Select Manual Setup.
Verify that Connection Sharing = Share a public IP address is selected on the Internet > Internet Connection tab.
Select Disks, and then, select File Sharing.
Verify that both the "Enable file sharing" and "Share disks over WAN" options are enabled.
Verify that Secure Shared Disks = With a disk password. (Recommended)
Verify that AirPort Disks Guest Access = Not allowed. (Recommended)
Select Advanced, and then, select the Port Mapping tab.
Click the plus sign to add a new port mapping.
For Service, select the "Personal File Sharing" option. (Note: This option would only allow Mac clients to access the AirPort Disks. If you want both Macs and PCs to connect, you would need to leave this field at its default value and enter the appropriate SMB ports to the mix of ports to be opened.)
In the Public UDP Port(s) and Public TCP Port(s) boxes, type in a 4-digit port number (e.g., 8888) that you choose. In the Private IP Address box, type the internal IP address of your AEBSn that you wrote down in step 1. In the Private UDP Port(s) and Private TCP Port(s) boxes, type 548. Click Continue.
In the Description box, type a descriptive name like "AirPort Disk File Sharing," and then, click Done.
Click on Update.
To connect to the shared AirPort Disk from a remote location using a Mac:
From the Finder > Go > Connect to Server.
Enter the DynDNS-provided Domain Name or Pubic (WAN-side) IP address of the AEBSn, followed by a colon and the Public port number that you choose in step 11 of the previous procedure. For example: afp://www.mydyndnsdomain.com:8888 or afp://123.456.789.123:8888
Click Connect.
You should be prompted for your user name and password. The user name can be anything you like; the password should be the Disk password for the AEBSn that you created in step 6 previously.
Click Connect.
Here are some screenshots"

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When an unmounted disk needs mounting, it's kind of a pain to have to load an app (Disk Utility) to mount that disk. Is there no easier way, direct from the Desktop/Dock/Finder/via a third party plugin?

After you unmount the external drive, turn the power off.
When you need it again, turn the power to the external
drive back on and the drive will mount automatically.
If you will need to access the unmounted volume again after a
short time interval, then you should just leave it mounted.
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Need to Increase mount point disk space

Hello,
I do not know whether this is the appropriate forum to post my question.
I need to increase the mount /u01 disk space . I would like to club two mounts and make one File system to a make a bigger one. I do have 2 filesystems mounted on 2 disks as following.
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You have to install a package called Solaris DiskSuite where there is a utility called growfs which can grow your file systems that is it can add more space to your existing file system. Which OS do u have . If you have solaris 7 you have to install it from sun early access CD..If it is already installed , then you have to follow the procedure as given below.
The following example expands a nonmetadevice slice for the /u01 file system. In this example, the existing slice, /dev/dsk/c1t4d0s0, is converted to a metadevice so additional slices can be concatenated.
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# umount /u01
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Mount UFS disk not working

Hi,
I am new to Solaris so this may be something simple I have missed. I am having troubles mounting a MO (magnetic Optical) disk on my Solaris 9 X 86 workstation.. I have just loaded the Solaris operating system, in the workstation I have an internal MO drive connected to an internal PCI SCSI card. I know the drive is working because I can format and create a newfs on disks, then mount read and write to the disks I have just created. I mount the disk by using the following command.
# mount /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 /mnt/mo
When I try to mount a disk MO formatted on another Solaris system using the same command I get an error
# mount /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 /mnt/mo
mount: /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2 is not this fstype
I have tried to change the fstype to autofs in the vfstab file but this would not work. I have a Linux box with the same hardware installed and I can mount both MO disks (mine and ones formatted on other systems) by using the following command:
mount -t -ufs -o ufstype=sun /dev/sda /mnt/mo
I can read and write to both MO disks in Linux (after complilng the kernel with WR support for UFS in Linux) but not in Solaris.
Can anyone give me hints as to why I can not mount the disks from other Solaris machines?
Do I need to add other file system support?
Can I do some checks on the MO disk to make sure it is compatible?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Thanks for your responce.
I have 2 new solaris X86 boxes which I have just built. Our customer sends us data on MO disks formatted in UFS from their solaris 8 SPARC boxes. If what you are saying is true, it may not be possiable to read the MO disks on my X86 solaris box then.
All of the disks I am trying are 512 bytes/sector (4.1GB or 2.3GB).
I have not tried Solaris 10 but if may be worth a go before I go out and buy a SPARC station.
When I do the following commands this is the output I get:
On the UFS formatted on a SPARC station
#fdisk -w /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0p0
# (returns with no errors. I also tried s2 instead of s2)
#prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s2
* /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s2 partition map
* Dimensions:
* 512 bytes/sector
* 31 sectors/track
* 4 tracks/cylinder
* 124 sectors/cylinder
* 32047 cylinders
* 32045 accessable cylinders
* Flags:
* 1: Unmountable
* 10: Read-only
* Unallocated Space
* First Second Last
* Sector Count Sector
* 124 3973456 3973579
* First Second Last
* Partition Tag Flags Sector count sector mount dir
2 5 01 0 3973580 3973579
8 1 01 0 124 123
#fstpy /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2
Unknown_fstype (no matches)
Drive formatted on my X86 box
results were teh same exept:
# fstyp /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2
UFS
In conclusion does this mean that we can not read the disks formatted on the SPARC boxes?
Do you know of anything else I can try?
Thanks in advance.

User permission on SMB mounted network disk

I have a Buffalo TeraStation automounted via "NetInfo Manager" in my G5. But only the user that I used to mount the disk, and the root user can access the mounted disk. Other users in the same machine can't get permission to the network disk.
Does anyone know how do I add the permission for other users? Thanks!
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Ok found a sollution, i tried a couple of things, it boils down to this.
login as admin user
1. demote the network user to a local user,
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     import to Local directory, reset the password and delete the LDAP user.
2. you chould now be able to localy login to the account, do that.
3. open the terminal and run the following commands (probably need sudo for it and you need to change <username> to the user you want to change)
     chmod -R -N /Users/<username>/
     chown -R <username>:staff /Users/<username>
     chmod -R 700 /Users/<username>
4. check that every thing in you're account is working again as should.
5. promote local user to network user.
use workgroup manager for it use export in menu to export user from Local
     import to LDAP directory, reset the password and delete the Local user.
this did the trick for me, hope it helps.
Ben

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I'm trying to mount a disk on safe boot mode.
After login,I'm able to mount the boot disk with write permission by using command "mount -uw /" , but how can I mount other disk, say "/dev/disk0s1"?

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An error has occured attempting to mount a disk image "5" error #5

for quite some time now, i have not been able to load programs. it seems to have started after i did a firmware update that was meant for a OS 10.5 system and mine is OS 10.4.11. ever since then, every time i would click on "Software Update", nothing would happen, if i were to upgrade to itunes to 8.0 whatever, nothing happens. if i were to try to mount with stuffit expander i would get the following error: an error has occured attempting to mount a disk image "5", error #5. it is getting very frustrating.
any help will be appreciated.

Hi Watsmaster, and a warm welcome to the forums!
If you haven't done any Disk or OS maintenance, then I'm thinking corrupt HDD or possibly some Hardware problem.
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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I will start by saying that I have never had a problem with connectivity between my iMac and Macbook.
I have 2 PCs in the house running Vista. Both can connect wirelessly to the TC and access the internet through this without a problem. However when trying to connect the disks (TC disk and also one connected USB drive) I get an error.
Error reads "Unknown User, incorrect password, or login is disabled. Please retype the login information or contact the Disk's administrator (67)." I know the password I entered is correct.
TC firmware version is 7.4.2
File sharing is enabled.
Secure shared disks with TC password
AirPort Disk guest access is Read and Write
WIndows workgroup is set the same as on the Vista machines.
WINS Server is blank.
The frustrating thing is that it used to work just fine and it appears that this is a recent event (the kids have been complaining for a while and I have only just now got around to looking at it seriously).
When I first purchased my TC 9 months ago we were a Windows only household. There was never any problem with connecting to the drives. It appears that the connectivity has got progressively worse over time.
At one stage I dumped the Windows AirPort utility and just tried to manually map the TC and other drive within windows (i.e. select Map Network drive, enter IP address of TC and then select the shared name) This worked for a while but now windows will not even see the shared drives. The TC is visible on the network considering it is the point where the two PCs connect.
Does anyone have any advice on how to get the two Vista PCs to connect?

OK. I have had a closer look at things and believe I am closer to identifying the source of the problem.
It appears that I am unable to use the Airport Agent to mount the disks because of the (so-called) "smart" firewall in Norton 360.
If I disable the Norton firewall I am able to get the disks mounted (mapped).
Now I do not want to have to permanently disable the firewall just so I can access the disks.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to configure the firewall so that it allows communication between the Vista PC and the TC? (i.e. any specific ports to open, protocols to allow, etc.)
It is also interesting to note that I get the same problem is I manually map the disks from within Windows Explorer (i.e. no problem with firewall disabled but constant invalid password with firewall active).

[SOLVED][XFCE] Cannot mount usb disks & manage network connections

Hi guys,
I'm using XFCE with 3.3.1-1 kernel. Since yesterday I'm not able anymore to automatically mount usb disks, manage my WiFi networks (networkmanage connects to the default access point but I can't select another AP nor editing my settings). I'm also prompted to type my password when I clik on the shutdown icon;
So it seems I lost some privileges but I can't figured out why...
I still belong to the same grousp as before:
[root@archLaptop sclarckone]# groups sclarckone
lp wheel games video audio optical storage scanner power users
Does anybody has an idea where to take a look?
Thanks
Last edited by sclarckone (2012-04-15 20:54:38)

Me too. Start a new thread?
Edit; Nope, this worked for me https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142110
Last edited by Glinx (2012-05-25 11:44:47)

How can i access the hard disk and know the no of partitions

sir
i want to access the hard disk and know how many parttions the hard disk have means c,d,e,f,g or may be c,d,e? also volum no or serial no.
but i do not know how?
plz help me and send me a code
thanks in advance
if this quesstion is not related to this forum plz guide me that where i put this quesstion?

You figure out how to do it on your OS using C/C++ code.
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