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.

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I have an airport extreme with a USB printer attached (non-airprint). Can i print from my ipad?

I have an airport extreme with a USB printer attached, it is a non airprint printer.
I can print via my network from my desktop but I want to know if i can print from my ipad 2 and ipad 1

Printing from an iPad or iPhone
To print directly from an iPad you need an AirPrint - enabled printer on the same wireless network as the iPad. All AirPrint printers are wireless but not all wireless printers are AirPrint-enabled.
If you do not have an AirPrint printer, a number of workarounds exist that enable the use of any printer you normally use, even older ones that may predate AirPrint by decades. Search for the following products:
handyPrint (Mac only, donation-supported)
Printopia (Mac only, $19.95 with free trial)
These are utilities you install on the Mac you normally use for printing, enabling it to act as an AirPrint print server. The Mac must be "on" but may be asleep for them to work. The iPad needs nothing else, no iOS apps need to be installed and no configuration is necessary. If your computer can print, so can the iPad, using one of these utilities on your Mac.
Equivalent utilities may exist for PCs but I have no experience with them - I suggest https://www.collobos.com
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http://www.lantronix.com/it-management/xprintserver/xprintserver.html
Otherwise you will need to buy an AirPrint printer or multifunction device.

Using the airport usb disk with playstation3...

anyone know how i can get my PS3 to see the USB disk hooked up to my AE, and use it as a media share?
I have a wireless-n AE, with a 250GB USB drive hooked up, and also a WD Mybook world edition 1TB server on a ethernet connection.
all the macs in my house see the drives just fine, but everytime i search for a media share on the PS3, it says 'no media shares found'.
i'm sure its a PS3 issue, but i was just wondering if anyone here has any experience with it, as i'm a complete noob when it comes to networking.
thanks.

a) WEP WPA password, ive never set one up for the airport, where do i find out what this password is for my PC?
You will set up wireless security (WEP or WPA) on the AirPort Express Base Station (AX)..using the AirPort Admin Utility, which is part of AirPort for Windows.
b) Everytime I run the Airport Express Assistant it gives me an error message saying "Windows is not the current network manager...please change Windows to the default", I dont know why I get this error and I assume windows is the one managing the networks I use.
Your PC has wireless capability...correct? The AirPort Setup Assistant requires a wireless connection to the AX.
c) I can connect to the airport through windows, but when in the Airport Management Utility it does not detect the Airport
Connect your PC directly, using an Ethernet cable, to the Ethernet port of the AX, and then run the AirPort Admin Utility to configure it.
d) After all this, will Windows and iTunes allow you to stream music thru the Airport Express, like it does on my mac with itunes???
Yes, you will be able to stream iTunes from your PC to the AX, either wired or wirelessly.

Inconsistent Airport USB disk mounting patterns

I have two Airport Extreme networks -- one at home and one in my office at work. I access both networks with a MacBook. Fine so far.
I also have an Iomega USB disk attached to the APE at home and an identical disk attached to my APE at work. The disk at home mounts nicely on my desktop. However, the disk at school does not mount. Connection proceeds to the point where I type in the password, but it does not mount, and I get the volume "__" could not be mounted message. This message appears regardless of which user account I work.
So, the Airport disk mounts fine at home but does not mount at my office. I've spent several hours deleting preference files, mucking around with the Airport Utility, etc. No go. Restarting the APE at work sometimes gives short-lived success, but it does not seem to last.
Any suggestions?

Okay, after reading several other discussion posts, the best workaround I've been able to find is to mount the Airport Disk through the Connect to Server menu. You'll need to know the IP address of your AirPort. It's probably either 10.0.1.1 or something like 192.168.0.1 -- you can find it by running AirPort Utility from the Utilities folder. Just click on your AirPort base station on the left side and the utility should say what the IP address of your base station is. (You can then quit AirPort Utility.)
Then press cmd-K, OR from the Finder click on the Go menu and then select Connect to Server...
In the "Server Address" box, type smb://AEBS-IP-adress/Volume-name
For example, in my setup, I connect to smb://10.0.1.1/Iomega because my AirPort Extreme Base Station has an IP address of 10.0.1.1 and the name of the drive I have connected to my AEBS is called "Iomega" The volume should now mount and show up in the Toolbar of any Finder window. It does NOT show up as a separate volume on my desktop, but your mileage may vary.
This has worked for me each time I've tried it and is much more reliable than trying to select my AEBS from the "Shared" option in the Toolbar of the Finder window.
BTW: If you will be doing this regularly, you may want to go back to the Connect to Server menu and click the + button to add it as one of your favorite servers.

Airport USB Disk - access from PC?

I have set up my USB disk in my Airport utility, trying all three options (accounts, disk password, and device password). I cannot find it in Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer to access it.
What is the trick?
Thanks,

There are a number of posts related to accessing AirPort Disks from Windows Vista / 7 PCs. Two potential solutions being forwarded are: 1) Changing the LAN Manager authentication level, and/or 2) Disabling the Windows Search feature.
To change the LAN Manager authentication level:
From the Windows Vista / 7 desktop, click Start
Search for: security
Click 'Local Security Policy'
Goto Local Policies > Security Options
Under Policy, double-click 'Network security: LAN Manager authentication level'
Change level to: Send LM & NTLM responses
Under Policy, double-click 'Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including RPC) clients'
De-select 'Require 128-bit encryption'
Click OK
To disable Windows Search:
Start > Control Panel > Programs > Programs & Features
On the right-hand side, click "Turn Windows features on/off"
Scroll down, and de-select "Windows Search".
Press OK, close all windows and restart.
A third "solution," that has worked for me, is verify that both the AirPort base station and the Win7 PC are using the exact same Workgroup Name. In my case, I use "WORKGROUP" (without the quote marks) for this name.
From the AirPort Utility, you would enter this value on the Disks > File Sharing tab.
On Win7, Start > Control Panel > System and Security > System > Change Settings > Change > Workgroup

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I have just updated to 2.1.1 and now Aperture freezes every time I connect my usb external disk and try to create or update a vault. I have to force quit Aperture and remove the disk before I can use Aperture again. The only way I can create a vault is to create it on my internal disk then manually copy to the external usb. Another topic here suggested the problem is with network disks but I have a very similar problem with a local usb disk. I have tried two different disks with the same results. All my software and os is up to date.
Does anyone else have this problem?

I have a similar problem, and have a not totally satisfactory fix for my issue.
I have my photos stored on an external FW drive.
Originally I also stored my vault on the same drive.
When I started Aperture with this config then Aperture would not pass the loading screen. I would have to kill the process to quit.
If I started Aperture with the FW drive disconnected then it would launch, but I would then attach eth FW drive and have to Manage referenced files.
What has worked for me:
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I have to create the vault on the internal HD and copy to the external.

Error in Time Machine configuration with two usb disks??

Hi all,
I applied two 1TB usb disks to my Mac Mini with OSX 10.9 server (latest version) and configured them within the Server.app for time machine. As far as I understood, there should only be 1 backup destination 'backups' presented to my mac clients afterwards. But I always see 'backups' and 'backups-1', meaning both usb drives. Did I misunderstand the manual or is there something wrong with my Server.app?
Thank you for your help and best regards, BanditCH

Hi Wolfgang,
That just won't work. You can get a bigger external drive of 3TB for instance, that will work as one destination.
For this to work with 2 drives: every client needs to choose between two destinations, because both drives appear as a unique destination in TimeMachineServer. There's no way around it.
To be futureproof consider a dedicated NAS with 2 or more disks that supports timemachine so your capacity can grow when there are new bigger drives available. With 2 drives in a RAID mirror inside a NAS you have the best of both worlds. Client backup on a RAID mirror, when one drive fails it does not affect the entire backup. Connected to that NAS you can use an external USB disk for backup. Wonderful
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Performance of WRT610N (v1) with attached USB disk

Greetings, I've had my WRT610N for a while now and have had no complaints on performance. Over this past weekend, however, I attached a USB disk to it (cheaper than adding a NAS). I can mount it without problem on my Vista box, but it seems that when the disk is being accessed (read or write), I get severe performance degradation on my network connection. Severe enough to render the network unusable.
Is this to be expected? Is there a setting in the firmware that will prioritize network activity over disk activity?
The PCs in question are wired and the router is running the latest firmware (1.00.03.15). The disk (previously formatted on my computer) is NTFS. If there are any other pertinent pieces of information, please let me know.
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Try reducing the MTU size to 1300 on the router's GUI and check if the problem resolve...If not then,try upgrading/reflashing the router's firmware and reconfigure it from the scratch....

Airport Extreme, with Belkin usb 7 Port powered hub, with printer & 2 HD's

I have the Belkin usb 7 Port hub going into the Airport Extreme, my Macbook Pro sees the printer and prints fine, but doesn't see the 2 western digital mini hard drives My AE still has a green light. Is there something else I have to do? Thanks, Schooner

Hi Schooner17-
Are the drives bus-powered?
If so, do they work with the hub on a Mac? Do the drives work 1 at a time?
That hub might not supply enough juice to power both drives.
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Can you plug in a USB external Hard Drive to a Airport Extreme to store all iTunes music (or other files) and then access this from all wireless devices?

Yeah the backup is where I'm getting stuck. Seems just keeping the files on my local hard drive is the easiest but that would essentially require a new computer as I'm running a 2008 Macbook Pro and don't want to upgrade it.

Why Airport USB disk is that slow?

I'm using Airport Extreme at 802.11n to connect to the Internet and a 400GB USB 2.0 disk. I wonder why the transfer is SO SLOW (ussually 2.0 MB/s and peak of 5 MB/s).
For other people is this speed too?

I got so frustrated with the slow speed on mine that I actually unplugged it from the APEBS and plugged directly into my MBP. Made me "very very angry indeed"! I didn't have this problem under Tiger.
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PS3 and Airport USB Disk

I'd really like to get my PS3 to connect to the USB drive attached to my Airport.. but not sure if it's going to be possible. Does anyone have any more info, or know a way to get it to work?
Apparently:
+PS3 uses HDNA (uPnP)+
+TC uses Bonjour (mDNS)+
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6568952&#6568952
But perhaps there is still a way to get them to work together..?

I have a 500 GB WD connected to my AE and it's FAT formatted (I think this is the only format PS3 will read). I use Nullriver's MediaLink and once it shows up as a Shared drive on my G5 the PS3 can access it as well. I don't believe it can access this drive if the G5 is sleeping or turned off. But the advantage is that I can put MediaLink on my laptop as well and "serve" music and video from the shared drive. I haven't tried it yet, but it should work.

Disk Utility to Airport USB disk?

It looks like the answer is no, but I'm mildly surprised that Apple didn't make this more Apple-like
Just checking to see if one can do any "Disk Utility" type of access (Erase, repair, etc) to a USB HD off the AEBS (I have the gigabit version), or if you have to connect directly to your Mac for that.
Thanks,
Mike

You must connect the drive directly to your Mac to get those abilities.

Extreme with LaCie ED Mini Issues

I have a LaCie Ethernet Drive connected to my new AirPort Extreme. I have to MBP's and an HP Tablet connected to the network. No issues with the HP Tablet recognizing the ED Mini. The MBP's with connect to the ED Mini, but won't recognize any files. I've tried restarting, reinstalling, and nothing is working. This has to be a MBP issue because the HP Tablet has no problem accessing the ED Mini. Any thoughts?

Right see that myself now, strange. You need to connect the drive to your mac and use disk utility.

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

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