AE Flat + Airport Disk Troubles

I just got my new AE Flat today. I like it a lot, but I would like it even more if I could use it to access my USB HD (which is the whole reason I purshased the new AE in the first place).
The drive connects fine when directly connected to my PBG4 over USB 2.0. Like I said, I can't connect to it over the AE Flat. I can connect to my USB flash drive over the AE Flat, so I don't think there is anything wrong with the base station--unless it is a compatibiltiy issue.
I have a 750GB SATA Seagate inside of a CoolDrives USB 2.0/eSATA enclosure (MINI eSATA + USB 2.0 Aluminum Removable Drive Enclosure). The drive is formatted Mac OS Extended. Is my enclosure not compatible with the new AE Flat? If not, will it ever be?
I also read an article amongst Apple's support pages that said somethign about block sizes needing to be 512 bytes. What does this mean? How do I check or fix this?
Has anyone else had trouble connecting to their USB drives through the AE Flat???

I have a Thecus 2050 Raid enclosure that crashes the AE 802.11n everytime I plug the usb in. It's a hardware RAID 1 and a direct connection to my MacBook Pro confirms that it sees it as a single disk. It's formatted as Mac OS Extended.
I've tried reformatting, restarts, resets, different cables, and even went to the apple store to exchange it for a different one.
I've been reading through post after post of people having trouble with external harddrives and the AExtreme and I don't understand why there isn't a firmware update for this. The AExtreme has been on the market for several weeks, there's no excuse for all this imcompatibility.
At this point I just want to know that they're working on it, and that compatibility for all properly formatted usb drives is coming.

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BUG FOUND!! in Airport Disk programming

I'm betting this is having a bigger issue then most poeple realize as it effects reconnecting to the Airport disk.
Ok after lots of testing I've figured out a major bug in the Airport Disk Programming for Security.
This has only been verified with the following settings:
1. Airport Disk is configured with Accounts for access
2. Formatted with HFS+ USB drive.
Discription:
1. When connecting to the Airport Disk you get the error:
"Connection Failed
Unknown user, incorrect password, or login is disabled. Please retype the login information or contact the disk's administrator."
2. You retype the password and user name and it still says the same thing over and over and over.
The Cause of problem:
You connect to your Airport Disk the first time with no problem using your login and password. If you cause your connection to be interrupted for a small amount of time and you get that Warning about server disconnect and it shows your airport disk and personal disk with the disconnect button, and they disconnect!! Then you cannot reconnect to the Airport Disk till you reset the Airport Extreme.
To get this Disconnect dialog, it can be caused by a number of common uses, here are a few of the common ones:
1. you VPN into work (with Airport Disk shares mounted)
2. you change from wireless to Hardwired connection (with Airport Disk shares mounted)
3. You let your computer go to sleep when its on a wireless connection but are connected through another wireless access point hardwired to the network (with Airport Disk shares mounted)
When getting your Airport Disk volumes disconnected in this way, The Airport Extreme I'm guessing is deactivating the account and not properly disconnecting the connection. So at this point you have to Reboot the Airport Extreme to let you use your account again on the Airport Disk.
I hope some poeple from Apple actually read these. I've had to reset my Airport extreme about 24 times a day between my wife's 15" MBP and my 17" SR MBP getting this disconnect problem.
And for those poeple out there who keep having Airport Disk connection problems, Lets make sure your not having this problem. To test, simply reboot the airport extreme router & see if you can connect to your Airport Disk Volumes, then once your volumes are mounted turn off your Airport wireless (on your MAC) or unplug your Hardwire till you get the disconnect message. Then try to reconnect to your Airport Volumes after restoring your network connection.
This issue needs to be fixed ASAP!!!!
Please reply to this message with your nominations to try and get this issues raised to a P1 or lvl 1 priority so it's in the next firmware upgrade as it's not an issue with OS x programming side, as a rebot of the computer still doesn't restore the connectivity with the AirPort Disk.

HERES A SOLUTION I POSTED IN ANOTHER THREAD!
Hi,
I've been trying to work out the Hard Drive problems with the Airport Extreme for a few days and have had some success, so I'll share the info if its any use!
First of all, your printer and both hard drives all run off their own power supply, therefore, you don't need to have a powered usb hub, or just take the plug out and keep using the hub, save yourself a plug!
More importantly, I have had the same thing with the hard drive appearing in the Airport Utility yet whenever I try to connect, it comes up with an error and can't mount, although when I go to network and connect it appears but then goes wrong at the last part mounting, this is what I found...
the first time I plugged hard drive in all worked nicely, however, any time I have unplugged the power to the Aiport Extreme and connected again it'll show but never connect. When I went to make a few partitions I realised that if you unplug the router and repower, whatever HD name its seen before doesn't work until the HD name was changed again. For example....
I called my first HD to connect 'wifiHD', was working fine, next time i unplugged router was still showing in network but I couldn't mount it, I then plugged it to the mac and renamed it 'wifiDISK' for example and plugged it back into the router and it worked fine! Its very strange cos when I needed to unplug it last time I then had the same trouble and just renamed it back to 'wifiHD' it worked fine! Its a little flaw which is a right bugger to find so the bottom line is...
RENAME THE HARD DRIVE EVERY TIME YOU UNPLUG THE ROUTER AND YOU CAN MOUNT IT AGAIN
Another tip is format your HD in 'Mas OSX Extended' as it can be read by both mac and PC over the network. Then as windows isn't the best when you go to 'My Network Places' and 'Add Network Place' if you can't find the HD or even the router then enter
\\routername\\hardrivename\
in this format into the box, it'll take a mo but it'll then ask for the password! I personally have my hard drive guest access read + write so I entered
user: guest
password: base station password (or disk password as selected in airport utility)
and it all worked!
Sorry for the long explanation, hope this has helped!

Airport Disk Logon Problems with SyncbackSE

Hei - looking for a little assistance with this...
Essentially I am having trouble working out what username/password I should use to access my airport disk, and what settings need to be selected on Airport Utilities.
I have an Airport Extreme setup with a Maxtor One touch USB drive.
I have two PCs running XP/Vista - boh can access the disk through the Airport Base Station Agent. My problem is that I am attempting to use this drive for synchronised back up using SyncbackSE. Syncback is syncing "My Documents\Music" with "\\10.0.1.1\MaxtorOneTouch\Music". This gives an 'invalid password' error...
Syncback offers the option to enter a username/password for network drives, but i am unsure what this should be. Under Airport Utils -> Disks -> File Sharing I have ticked Enable File Sharing, Secued shared disks with device password and chosen read/wite acess for guest access. Should this be enough to access my drive with username: \\10.0.1.1\guest, password: <default ax password>?
Do i need to use username: \\10.0.1.1\MaxtorOneTouch\guest?
Am I going about this the wrong way entirely?
Any advice? Many thanks in advance.
Neil

I am having the same problem authenticating an acronis backup to an airport disk. What should populate the fields of username/password? I can't find this information anywhere.

FTP program not showing Airport Disk folders or files

I have just recently changed my wireless router to an Airport Extreme (gigabit) from a Netgear WNR854T (that was having up-time issues). I have an old PC that I use for an FTP server control with the Serv-U package. When I had the WNR854T running I just had an external drive attached to the PC via USB and the program would map it as a path with no stress.
Now that I have the Airport Disk function on the Extreme I have moved the external drive (which is actually 2 x 500GB SATA drives in a dual bay enclosure, formatted as separate OSX Extended drives) to the port on the back. This is working great for my wireless PowerBooks and MacBook, and my PC (which is wired ethernet) has the 2 drives mapped as X and Y, and I have no trouble moving, creating or re-naming files within Explorer.
The issue I currently have is that the FTP package will see the Airport Disk (the one I want to use is X:/) and I can make it show up within Serv-U ... but it simply will not open when I login remotely to give me a list of folders contained in X:/ ... it will let me look at the windows c:/ though.
My 3 questions are:
- has anyone else experienced this problem??
- do you think this is a PC issue and I should find a cheap Mac Mini and make a new FTP server (with something like PureFTP for control)??
- does the above make sense at all??
Thank-you!
Message was edited by: frankle

I have now set up my Powerbook G4 with Pure FPTd Manager and I am still getting intermittent issues.
Every now and then (but very rarely) it will connect fine but on the whole I am not getting a connection. It seems like there is a problem with listing what is actually in the directory as Cyberduck will show the directory but then it contains nothing.
Can some people let me know about their successful FTP server with an Airport Extreme Gigabit??
Thanks.

Has anyone got Airport Disk working from a Windows PC?

The title says it all really!
Just wondered if I'm the only one having trouble with the new Airport extreme..
Alex

Hello everybody.
I have no problems accessing USB disks on my AEBS from any Windows computer, but I have the same problem as ashealey.
I have connected my new HFS+ preformatted LaCie 500GB minihub (designed to be stacked under a MacMini- but also looks ok under the Airport) to my also new Airport Extreme (802.11n). After connecting the disk, the disk appears with a nice picture on my MacBook. And I have no problems accessing the disk from Windows - both wireless and wired.
I have copied lots of data, incl. backup (> 16GB) from my MacBook to the Airport connected LaCie disk witout any problems.
From Windows I can create directories, and read/write files. And I can copy large amounts (>16GB) from the Airport disk to my Windows computers. But when I try, as you, to copy large data quantities from Windows to my Airport disk, my Airport Extreme and/or LaCie harddisk crashes as you describe. It is not enough to re-start the Airport. I also have to re-start the LaCie disk (I unplug both devices, and re-power them). I only ran one copy at a time, so it has nothing to do with simultainousl access.
Hope the cause of this problem can be found soon. I guess the problem is in the Airport Extreme.
I cannot understand, why Apple have released this Airport Extreme without having tried this simple test: Copy more than 20MB from a Windows PC to the Airdisk. I think Apple is loosing some of its fans, if the problem is not solved very fast. One of the reasons I selected the Airport Extreme, instead of using my current TopCom wireless router was the Airdisk possibility. This is more flexible than buying a seperate LAN disk. But if it doesn't work, what's the point?

Time Machine - Airport Disk Hangs after installing 10.5.6 update

The 10.5.6 update basically made my Time Capsule and Airport Disk connected to the Time Capsule unusable. I've repaired the permissions as suggested in other posts - this did not fix the problem.
I was unable to perform any incremental backups initially after the 10.5.6 update, so I archived my sparsebundle and created a new one by doing a full fresh backup - which completed successfully. However, after the backup, I was unable to connect to the Time Capsule or the USB drive connected to the Time Capsule via Finder - when trying to connect my computer hangs and I'm forced to do a hard restart of BOTH my computer AND the Time Capsule, if I just restart one or the other the problem persists. If I let the connection attempt run long enough I get an "Error Code: -8072" message and still have to do a hard restart. After the hard restart of my computer and Time Capsule I'm able to connect to the Time Capsule and the USB drive connected to Time Capsule just fine. However, once the backup runs again - the same problem returns, I can no longer access the Time Capsule or the USB drive connected to Time Capsule and have to do a hard restart of BOTH my computer AND Time Capsule. This 10.5.6 update has been havoc, anyone have the same troubles or ideas for resolving this. Before updating to 10.5.6 my system was working flawlessly with Time Capsule and the connected USB drive.

You might to well to repost in the TimeCapsule forum here:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1253
where such issues are regularly dealt with

HT1331 Why does this article still not indicate that Airport Disk Utility no longer exists?

ADU stopped existing after 10.6. I see this article was updated in May; that means two revisions of OSX which don't contain this utility have been announced or released at that time yet it's still wrong. It's near the top of google rankings, making this a crappy thing to do to your users who are looking for information, Apple.

Yes, you are correct - there is no longer a Airport Disk Utility. It was discontinued. That article was accurate up until 10.7 was introduced.
You cannot call "from the main window of AirPort Disk Utility enable "Show AirPort Disks in the menu bar"" a 'typo' - it is flat-out wrong, as that menu option no longer exists at all. So the instructions can not be applicable.
This could be corrected simply by adding "10.6 and earlier OSX versions" or the like to the products affected list. But leaving this entirely unusable set of unstructions up as it stands is misleading and counter-productive.

AirPort Disk over WAN

I'm having trouble connecting to my AirPort disk over WAN. I manage to connect and it comes up with a list of volumes to mount but it doesn't show any.

Disk was formatted as FAT32, worked fine when I reformatted as MAC

Mount AirPort Disk using AFP

I am having some trouble mounting my AirPort Disk using AFP. I can navigate to "Network" using the Finder and select my AirPort and then mount the desired volume. However, if I attempt to use "Connect to Server" in the Finder's "Go" menu, I run into a problem. By my (possibly flawed) reasoning, I should be able to enter in afp://airportName/volumeName in the server address field and it should connect. If I enter in smb://airportName/volumeName, it works. But trying the same thing with AFP doesn't work. However, if I try afp://10.0.1.1/volumeName it does work. I find this a little perplexing. Any suggestions? Have I just got the AFP URL syntax wrong?
Thanks in advance for any help!

I am building a script that uses rsync to syncronize some files between my laptop and my external drive. If I mount the drive manually through Network, I can syncronize files properly. My understanding is that the mechanism behind the mounting process in this case is AFP. If I mount the drive manually through "Connect to Server" in the "Go" menu of the Finder using "smb://airportName/volumeName", then the drive mounts but when I syncronize, the modification dates for the files all get set to today's date and time. This doesn't happen when I mount through Network in the Finder because AFP "understands" HFS+ while smb "doesn't understand" HFS+.
It turns out that I can mount the drive using AFP by using "afp://airportName.local/volumeName" according to another user. I will try that tonight. I still need to understand why the Applescript mentioned in my post above doesn't mount the drive to the Finder, yet renders it accessible from Terminal.

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.

Can see but not browse to Airport disk, also cannot print in Bonjour

I suspect this may be related to a firewall issue or perhaps the way my corporate PC is set up (logged into Domain with VPN to Internet. What else might cause:
Windows Exporer to hang and crash when I try to browse to Airport Disk which is clearly visible in WE
nability to print, Bonjour or otherwise tothe USB attached printer in Airport. Macs work just fine
Thanks in advance

Hi wrkeen,
Please share more details about this issue：
1. Provide the error messages for better analyzation.
2. What solution have you done to test the homegroup?
If we enable the network discovery, we will be able to find other computers or devices on the network.
Please take the following steps for troubleshooting:
1. Run the network troubleshooter to exclude the network issues. For more information, please refer to the following article.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/using-the-network-troubleshooter-in-windows-7
2. Go through this path Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center\Advanced sharing settings and check if we correctly configure file sharing and other settings.
Please take a look at the following article about troubleshooting file sharing.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/troubleshoot-file-and-printer-sharing
Best regards,
Fangzhou CHEN
Fangzhou CHEN
TechNet Community Support

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.

How to fix this error message The backup disk image "/Volumes/AirPort Disk/FARES DEL VALLE's iMac.sparsebundle" could not be accessed (error -1).

how to fix this error message The backup disk image “/Volumes/AirPort Disk/FARES DEL VALLE’s iMac.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error -1).

The troubleshooting C17 is the specific article.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
This is generally a Lion error.. and you will need 5.6 utility to get access to the disk area.
So download the real utility. Run it instead of v6 toy version.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
Go to the manual setup, disk page and click on disconnect all users.. that will unmount all users connected to the disk and allow it to start working. But there are a number of other issues that are possible cause. Pondini lists some of them.

Error while connecting to the AirPort Disk on Windows

good morning to everyone.
i am sure this question has been done several times, but i am italian and don't know the correct translation of the message i receive when i try to connect to my airport and so i cannot find the post concerning.
i have a 500Gb airport disk. i have both ethernet and usb cables connected.
airport options have been set:
enable share documents
shared disks with password
guest with WRITE/READ permissions
disks shared via WAN
workgroup name WORKGROUP, set as the same in windows control panel.
THOUGH
when i start the pc or try to access the "Time Capsule of Lyllo" it keeps me asking the password AND if i use the password i have set in the AirPOrt Utility, it gives me an error:
user not recognized, login not available.
(forgive me, but i do not knwo the english translation of this warning message)
can you help me?
i am trying to connect the airport since days but if i succeded once for few days, now i cannot connect anymore
thank you.

i have the same issue.
Was working fine a few days ago and now I can't access the airport configuration through the windows utility.
Had version 5.4.1 installed, then tried 5.4.2
Still no go

AirPort Disk works on Vista but is ULTRA SLOW on MacBook Pro...please help.

This is nuts, huh? Please help.
I can copy files using Window's Vista at about 7MBps so it takes around 2min 40secs to copy a previously bought 1.3GB iTunes TV show from the AirPort Disk (connected via USB 2.0)to my Vista machine. I understand this is a reasonable speed, if you think it should go faster let me know. When I try to play it with iTunes directly from the Airport Disk(by control clicking it and telling it to play with iTunes, not sure this is the best way, advice appreciated) it plays okay but I get a fair amount of stutters where it will skip a 1-4 seconds. Any way to fix this? Or should I just download it to my computer and play it from there. I was trying to save space and confusion on my computers and just play via the Airport Extreme Disk.
NOW THE WEIRD STUFF! It takes 4 hours to download the same TV file mentioned above from the Airport Disk to my MacBook Pro! And to stream the movie from the Airport Disk is impossible. Can anyone offer suggestions? I searched online and could not find any help.
Additional Info that might be helpful:
-AirPort Extreme 340ll/a, Version 7.5(I assume that's the firmware version).
-I erased with 0s and formatted an external 7200RPM 8MB Western Digital drive to "Mac OS Extended Journaled" via my MacBook Pro's USB port, using Disk Utility.
-My wi-fi connections seems fine: for web surfing it is fast with my Macbook and Windows computers, so that's not a problem. FYI, I did some internet download speed tests and got like 15,000-20,000kbps, which is pretty good, right?
-I hooked the drive up directly to my MacBook Pro's USB 2.0 port and copied the same HD TV show file to the computer, and Apple's "Activity Monitor" utility showed it is reading and writing at 30MBps which I understand is quite good. So it does not appear to be a hard drive problem either.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Cause of problem:
I found out that the problem was that in the "Airport Utility" under "Internet Connection" tab, the "Connection Sharing" had been set to "Off(Bridge Mode)". This stopped my MacBook Pro from accessing the AirPort Disk(an external hard drive connected to the AirPort Extreme Base Station). I still find it weird that My HP computer could access the AirPort Disk just fine and my MacBook Pro was so ultra slow(i.e. 4 hours to copy a 1.3GB file!) accessing files on the hard drive.
So, how did the default setting get changed to cause the problem to being with? I got some error pop-up box that said there were 2 NAT tables causing a conflict of some sort, so I followed it's instructions which put it in bridge mode which caused the problems. The reset of the wireless router put the "Connection Sharing" back into "Share a Public IP address" mode which is the default.
So anyway, this appears to be the end of this story, and I hope this post saves some people out there from some headaches and lost time!
Peace!

AE Flat + Airport Disk Troubles

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