Airport Extreme and USB Disk Connection

I have attached a Western Digital external drive, that I can successfully see the files on it when connected by USB to my iMAC, but when connected to my Airport Extreme I am unable to see it. I can however, see it successfully within the "airport utility" as a storage device connected to the base station. Why can I not see it and where should I be able to view it from?
Thanks in advance Neil

1. I do not see the AEBS in "finder" as I do idisk etc.
2. I do not see the AEBS in "disk utility" either
You will not see the disk in either Finder or Disk Utility until it is mounted.
I've had the same issue. Always have resolved them by shutting down the disk and disconnecting the USB, also cycle power on your USB hub if your using one. Reconnect the disk and power-up.
I can connect to the server (though not sure what account I should do this as) but there are no volumes to select.
Disk Utility> Disks> File Sharing> Secure Shared Disks, if it's set to "With base station password. you would use the Name and Password of your AEBS
Sounds like your connecting properly, it's just not recognizing the Disk.
One other thing, do you know how your disk is formatted?
Powerbook G4, MacBook Pro, Mac G5, Mac G4, Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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Hy all!
Sorry for my bad english, but i'm italian.
So, i have bought a new Apple Extreme Wireless station and i have connected a 2.5" external hd by Western Digital, so dosn't need external power.
The Hd have two partitions, one in hfs+ and the other in Fat32.
On the Fat32 partition i have a .iso file of 2,5gb and i want to transfer it on my macbookpro hd, via cabled network.
All runs well since the 99% of the procees, after i receive an unexpected erron n° -50, and the copy aborts.
if i try with a smaller file, on 600/700 mb, all working well.
It seems that i have problems over the gb.
Could anyone help me?
Thanks
Luke77
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You might make sure that you eject the disk from your MacBook before putting in back in your Airport Extreme.
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ksquare77,
Sorry I didn't have an external hard drive plugged up to my Airport Extreme at the time of my first post. But I did go and find it and hooked it up. I also grabbed my Wife's Vista Computer. I was however able to connect to it and read and write to the disk. So I'm trying to figure out what snag were running into on your side.
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1. Adding a USB NTFS-formatted external Maxtor drive to the USB port Extreme.
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I guess I'd like an unofficial confirmation that this is correct. I am a little disappointed that Apple didn't communicate this correctly in any of their specifications.
As you can see from this page
http://www.apple.com/airportextreme/specs.html
It does state quite clearly
+For shared printing with a USB printer +
If it allowed scanning, I am sure it would have said
+For shared printing and scanning with a USB all-in-one+
or similar.
If it doesn't explicitly say it will do something I would assume it can't.

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Troubleshooting printer issues in OS X - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203343
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Does this mean, that if you connect an already "used"
disc (with previously used data), you can't expect it
to read it all? Would it be a solution, if i put all
the data over on another disc as backup, and then
remotely transfered it to my external disc connected
to the AEBS?
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Apple Extreme and USB disk Error -50

Hy all!
Sorry for my bad english, but i'm italian.
So, i have bought a new Apple Extreme Wireless station and i have connected a 2.5" external hd by Western Digital, so dosn't need external power.
The Hd have two partitions, one in hfs+ and the other in Fat32.
On the Fat32 partition i have a .iso file of 2,5gb and i want to transfer it on my macbookpro hd, via cabled network.
All runs well since the 99% of the procees, after i receive an unexpected erron n° -50, and the copy aborts.
if i try with a smaller file, on 600/700 mb, all working well.
It seems that i have problems over the gb.
Could anyone help me?
Thanks
Luke77
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I had the same problem. I reformatted the disk to " Mac OS Extended (Journald) and then it worked fine. I transmitted over 100 gigs of information to it and no errors. It seems to be a problem with the Fat32 or any Windows format.
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