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!

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I've a 500GB Lacie BigDisk Extreme connected via USB to my Airport Extreme (7.3.2) which is configured to allow file sharing. I've tried various combinations "WIth a disk password" and "With Airport Extreme password" and allowing guest read and write access, but I can't see it on any of our Macs and Airport Disk Utility sees the airport extreme but reports "No airport disks found".
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Hi All,
not sure if it helps but after spending a day looking at all posts on this subject and trying all manner of things I finally stumbled on to a solution that worked for me.
Basically I just 'Restored Default Settings' on my Airport Extreme and as soon as I had, my disk appeared! Having spent all day trying to get it to work, this was a major achievement and so simple I didn't think of it until last.
Nowhere within the discussions did I see a mention of this, so thought I should record it in case in can help someone else with this issue.
R

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
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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.
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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.
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This is nuts, huh? Please help.
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To expand on the question, I have performed the following steps:
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I love computers.
Have managed to fix this already. Been working the issue for a few days now, and a few minutes after writing the above post I decided to reset the Time Capsule to factory default settings.
After entering all my details again (used same network names, passwords etc) the Time Capsule was rebooted. When it came back on line - guess what? Yep, the MyBook WD drive is now visibile. I can connect via the network from my other machines to the drive, and iTunes is back.
So - thought I would post my resolution in case it helps others.

Airport disk not visible in windows (XP)

I have 3 computes 2x imac + one PC under Windows XP
I use time capsule (7.4.2) for the network + file sharing.
Almost everything works ok.
Only issue is that I do not have airport disk access from the PC/Windows.
On the PC I have Airport Utility 5.4.2, when I open airport disk preference, it seems I see the airport name but when I try to connect to it/identify myself (connect as user) with the proper user id & password (as I have setup on the time capsule) I get the following message: "unknown user, incorrect password, or login is disabled. Please retipe etc".
Any idea what it could be?
thx

Hi nathalie&michael, i'm having the same problem. not only does it fail to connect as a user, also the guest connection returns the same error message. i have also tried manually mapping thee drive and this returns 'path not found' errors.

ITunes Library on an Airport Disk? Read and write from multiple Macs?

OK, I've scoured the forums for an answer to this, but haven't found anything definitive. Apologies if I've missed the answer, but here's what I want to know:
I have an iMac as a primary computer, plus a Mac Mini hooked up to my entertainment system, and my girlfriend's powerbook in the house too. There seem to be two main iTunes options: either constantly try to keep all three iTunes libraries synchronised by running around importing files, etc.; or just keep one library, and share it over the network.
Right now, I am keeping my iTunes library on my iMac and sharing it with the Mac Mini and the powerbook. If anyone wants to add music (or other content) to the library, it has to be through the iMac. Obviously the iMac has to be on for any other computer to access the shared library.
I want to try to make things simpler by having a single "network" iTunes library that all computers to be able to share (read AND write). I envisage having this "iTunes Server" on an external HD connected to my Airport Extreme as an Airport Disk. If I move the entire contents of ~/music/iTunes (including artwork, library files, etc) to this central location, will the three Macs be able to deal with this, ie can multiple computers share an iTunes library database on an airdisk? Will I be able to stream content from this library to all three computers? Will I be able to import new music into the library from any one of the three computers?

I am having a very similar problem. I have all of my music saved on a large external disk connected to my airport. I would like to be able to just play what i want from this disk, but i don't like having to download every track i want to listen to. I still want to be able to bring my laptop with me and have some music so i don't want to make this external disk my library folder. Is there a way to play it on my computer similar to a shared library on another computer? Am i asking to much out of apple?

Airport Disk problems

There seem to be a lot of threads going on about connectivity problems regarding disks connected to Airport Extreme base stations. This http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1155412 is probably the biggest. Since this really is a large issue, I thought I'll post a report of my findings.
Today was the first time I encountered the fact that I couldn't connect from my iMac G5 to my Airport Disk anymore , Finder gave me the following message:
+*Connection failed*+
+The server may not exist or it is not operational at this time. Check the server name or IP address and your network connection and try again.+
I went to my MacBook pro (waking from sleep) and it gave me the same message.
Restarting the Airport Extreme brought my disk back on my Macs.
I simulated this scenario, to see where it was failing:
*Case 1: let macbook pro sleep*
1. Fresh reboot of Airport
2. Mount disk on all macs and one windows xp machine
3. Put MacBook Pro to sleep (disk still working on other mac)
4. Wake MacBook Pro
5. Everything still works on all machines
*Case 2: let imac sleep*
1. Fresh reboot of Airport
2. Mount disk on all macs
3. Put iMac G5 to sleep
4. Wake up iMac G5
5. Disk doesn't work on Macs (AFP), but still works on windows machine (SMB)
In last scenario it looks like the AFP service on the Airport Extreme Base Station crashed. You can manually check this by doing this in Finder menu: *Go -> Connect to server*.
And type this:
afp://ip.of.your.basestation/ (you can find the ip of your basestation via airport utility)
You will get an "Connection failed", that means the server is not responding. At this point you can still connect to the Airport Disk via the SMB protocol. In the Finder menu: *Go -> Connect to server*
And type this:
smb://ip.of.your.basestation/
Use your username and password and you'll be able to connect to the airport disk.
Another way to check if the AFP service is still running on the airport, is to use an portscanner. You can use the one provided by apple in Network Utility. I used nmap.
After a fresh restart the following ports were opened:
21/tcp open ftp
53/tcp open domain
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
*548/tcp open afpovertcp*
554/tcp open rtsp
7070/tcp open realserver
10000/tcp open snet-sensor-mgmt
After waking the iMac from sleep the following ports were opened:
21/tcp open ftp
53/tcp open domain
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
554/tcp open rtsp
7070/tcp open realserver
10000/tcp open snet-sensor-mgmt
You can see that there is no AFP server (afpovertcp) listening on the Airport anymore.
I have the following setup:
MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2,33 Ghz
Mac OS X 10.5.1 (fresh install)
iMac G5 2,1Ghz
Mac OS X 10.5.1 (upgraded from 10.4.11)
Airport Extreme Basestation (fast ethernet)
- 802.11n (802.11b/g compatible)
- wpa2 personal
- file sharing with accounts
- no guest access allowed
Currently the only workaround I found, is by using the SMB protocol. (Finder -> Go -> Connect to server). This works on all machines, even after waking from sleep.
The problem as far as I can see is twofold:
1. AFP service on Airport Extreme Basestation is buggy, it justs crashes after it recieves info it doesn't expect.
2. Leopard sends stuff It shouldn't send.
Tiger never had this problem.

My AEBS network, internet connection and Airport Disk are all (finally) holding connections. It's been about a day now, so I guess it's going to be ok next week.
Here's some of my story/thoughts in case this helps anyone else who is still struggling with the madness:
First, I bought a TC and connected a USB disk. This was a cacophony of dropped connections, followed by the messages Frodo posted, lost internet connections, etc. A lot of resets, channel changes, restarts, two reformatting of the Airport Disk (via hardwire connection to one of my computers and then reconnecting it to the AEBS), etc. etc. later, I returned the TC for an exchange and bought a simple AEBS and connected that to the Airport Disk.
Same sort of problems again, but this time I don't usually lose my internet or network connection. New problems enter - glacial speed on some/most computers and ok on others. The Airport Disk keeps disappearing and can't reconnect. More restarts.
This is what seems to be working now:
I have every single client computer set to never sleep and that includes turning off the "Put HD to sleep when possible" button. I also set my WPA2 Personal timeout to 500 days. The default is 1 hr. Also, I took the Airport Disk down and connected it to a computer and ran Disk Utility. Found a header problem and fixed it. Followed that with Disk Warrior. More problems, this time an assortment. DW fixed those. Then reconnected the Airport Disk to the AEBS. Now it all works.
I did a bit of reading on WPA2 on Wikipedia and it turns out this scheme sends out some sort of key to the client computers and does it dynamically as the network is up. (This might explain the "unexpected ACL" message I was getting in Disk Utility when checking client computers - there are 3 of them. I assume these are an Access Control List generated by my AEBS; I certainly didn't put them there). Anyway, I got to wondering if the AEBS is trying to generate a new key for the 'group' that hat connected to it and since one or more of the 'group' has nodded off, it is unable to do so and this results in the lost connection followed by 'not operational' message. Maybe it thinks it was being hacked?
Anyway, with both those settings my network is stable, internet is stable and the Airport Disk has been mounted on various desktops now since yesterday. I'll worry about faster speeds later. None o my computers will sleep until an update is released. They don't mind. I have no inclination to spend any more hours fighting with this thing.
FYI, I have eight 10.5.2 computers and three 10.4.11. They are all happy this morning - although for a time yesterday the 10.4.11 client computers were real slow. I shut those down for a while last evening and concurrently changed to Channel 9. I'm using the 802.11n (b/g compatible) setting and I know that is in the 2.4 frequency, which is pretty crowded these days. I think the higher channels are probably less crowded. Anyway, the 10.4.11 computers were ok when restarted last evening and are still ok this morning. All connections held. Ditto for the 10.5.2 clients.
I don't know where the faults came from with the Airport Disk (fixed as described above yesterday), but I do know I did not "Disconnect All Users" in Airport Utility before resetting/restarting the AEBS while the Airport Disk was connected and (perhaps) still shared despite the dropped connection messages. I'm not even sure that disconnect button was available since I never looked.
Wheew!
Not sure what I'm going to do when the replacement TC arrives. It's a heckuv'n idea and I hate to walk away without at least another trip into the twilight zone. I've lost files before and would have been SOOoooo happy to be able to fish back in time to find them.

Files/folders not showing up with Airport Disk but are there?

I've recently bought the Airport Extreme, I was all excited about Airport Disk but there is a weird, extremly annoying bug.
On my USB hard drive connected using Airport Disk, I have a folder called music. When I open this folder, OS X starts reading the directory and files/folders show up one by one, but then it just all disappears - and the folder shows nothing. In Windows, it shows nothing at all in the folder. However, when I reconnect the drive using USB to my MacBook Pro, all my music is there and I can see all the files.
I have a feeling this is something to do with this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305040
as I have German and Japanese music files imported by iTunes which are not named in English (ie the filenames are encoded in Japanese etc etc)
Another strange thing is, in Windows, if I type the direct path to a folder (which is inside the supposed empty folder) I will be able to access it.
What's going on Apple?...
Anyone else got this issue?...
Thanks
macbook pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Hi Everyone,
I was experiencing the same. on the XP box it just wouldnt show anything period and on the Mac, the finder would briefly display the contents of the drive before disappearing. Spoke to Tier 2 and they thought I should reformat the drive, since he thought it likely that due to severing the drives connection that the format was corrupt...
I did manage to fix it myself and I'll tell you how. First I hardwired the drive via USB to the Mac. noticed an item called FROM which had no size, no date modified and type was --. I deleted the RECYCLED folder (which results when you delete something from the drive thru XP)
then i hardwired it to the PC. deleted the "FROM" folder which in this case was a file folder, and 237MB approx in size. I also deleted the ".DSStore" and ".Trashes" files. .DSStore is basically the icon cache and .Trashes is when you delete something on the airdisk from the Mac. reconnected the drive and POOF! it worked Problem is now solved.
So to summate, i think in my case it was more the discrepancy between the FROM not showing up as anything on the Mac, versus it being a full fledged folder to windows xp. i just thought i would pass this along...
Macbook C2D 2.0GHZ Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Extended router's network for Airport extreme. Works well with MacbookPro. I can print with notebook with XP SP3 and, I can see the USB-harddisc in the Airport service program but, I cannot use it. I have set filesharing etc. What do I do wrong?

I connected the Airport Extreme wireless to the existing network of my router. At the Airport there is connected via USB a Printer and three hard discs. All works well on my MacBook Pro - I can print and use the hard discs. On my notebook and my desktop, both with XP-SP3 I can use the printer only. In the Airport service program - manual set up - hard discs I can see the drives with the correct names but I cannot work with it. I don't find neithe the Airport Extreme nor the drives in the Windows Explorer. Of course I've set 'filesharing' etc. What do I do wrong? Where is the mistake in the set up?

apikoros wrote:
The Utility transferred all of the AE's settings, so I still have to change the password, which leaves me with only 2 other questions, I think:
1) I assume it's just a matter of using the Utility, entering a stronger password and checking for it to be remembered in Keychain Access. But do I have to change the password for each individual unit-- the TC, the Extreme and both Expresses-- or will changing it just for the TC alone work for the entire network?
Resetting the password you will need to do for each device... the utility cannot even see those old units.
So you will have to do it for each one.. think it through.. because as you change passwords the others will lose connection.. so start from the express which are wireless extending .. change those first.. and go back up the chain.. as each one changes it will drop off the network.. until you reach extreme and change that. Then you might need to reboot the whole network to get everything talking again. If something goes wrong.. just pluck that one out of the mix and plug in ethernet.. reset and redo the setup. That is my preferred method anyway.. do everything in isolation one by one. By ethernet and then nothing goes wrong.
2) Who's the treasonous SOB who spilled the beans to you about the ICBM in my back yard?!?
N.Korean hackers.
[Edit] Whoops-- one more question: I want to partition the TC's disk, but Disk Utility doesn't see it. What do I need to do?
You cannot partition a network disk. And apple provided no tools for it in the TC itself. You can pull the disk out and partition it but that voids your warranty. (although done with care who is to know).
Look at Q3 here.
http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
Mixing TM and data on the TC is worth planning carefully. They don't necessarily sit happily together.

AirPort Disk - Issue with Windows Vista Ultimate

I setup an AirPort Extreme network, with a shared USB Drive and so far I've only found one issue.
When attempting to create new files and renaming them, or rename pre-existing files on the shared USB Drive using Windows Vista Ultimate I get the following Yes/No dialog:
"The Z:\ folder does not exist. The file may have been moved or deleted. Do you want to create it?"
Then there's information about the mapped drive. If I click "Yes" in the dialog, then the dialog goes away for a moment then pops back up. I can't create a new file directly on the shared AirPort Disk, nor can I modify or create and rename new files on the disk without getting stuck in the loop.
I can, however, create a new file locally on the Vista box and copy it up, and I can even create a new directory locally with files and copy them up without issue.
Now, the issue does not happen when I use my MacBook or my XP machine. This issues seems to be a Windows Vista issue only, and I haven't seen anyone else reporting it.
Here's information about the disk share implementation:
- The disk is password protected (turning on accounts really breaks the ability of Windows Vista to work with the disk)
- The disk is Mac Formatted with Case Sensitivity, and Journaling
This works like a top for OS X and Windows XP, just not Vista. I'd like to getting working properly for all machines.
If anyone's got some advice on this one, I'd love to hear it.

Here's a little more information regarding the issue:
- It's an AirPort Extreme Wireless Router with Firmware ver. 7.1
- The Windows Vista Ultimate PC has the most recent Microsoft patches to-date, and has the most recent Apple Airport Utilities Software to-date.

Airport Disk can't connect since I upgraded to 10.5.1

On 3 different macs, I cannot click on the Aiport Extreme icon in the left bar in the finder, and then click on the disk. It does not seam to mount.
I found a woukaround, in the Finder preferences, I tick the box that shows connected drives on the desktop, and the connected Airport Disks are accessible from there.
p.

Had the same problem myself. Fortunately, I had good input and feedback to figure out what was happening.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1248629&tstart=0
Try mounting the disk directly on your computer (plug it into your machine), then run a Repair Disk in Disk Utility. Reconnect the disk and then restart the Airport Extreme. It should show up now.
By the way... ejecting the disk before putting your machine to sleep or turning it off help stop this issue from recurring.
Ben

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