Connecting External Drive to Airport Exress?

so what would happen if i connected my LaCie 160G ext. harddrive to my airport express via USB? I've read a lot of posts concerning Airport Extreme, but ideally, i would love to be able to connect my external drive to the airport express and have all of that information accessable through my wireless network...possible? or stupid?

Basically, it won't work. The USB port on the AirPort Express Base Station (AX) is only for connecting an USB printer. (ref: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107857)

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ITunes Settings for Media on External Drive via Airport Extreme...

iTunes Settings for Media on External Drive via Airport Extreme base station versus plugging directly into laptop.
My current configuration is that my iTunes Media (700gb) are all stored in an External Drive that's plugged into my Airport Extreme Base Station. This works great for me having wireless access to my iTunes external drive.
Whenever I need to back up that hard drive with Time Machine, I just plug it directly to my laptop...
But how do I let iTunes (or iTunes library) know that this is the same hard drive where all my media is stored when it's plugged directly into the laptop as opposed to trying to access it from my Airport Extreme network?

No there isnt any files call library in the folder i created I am now in the process of copying them back but I guess I will loose all my playlists and playcounts. I do have a Copy of my drive that i made with carbon copy cloner. So maybe it will be best to boot from there, restore and start again.
Chris it was just the media folder. I was following the instructions on the apple support page. Got to point 14 didn't get the warning but did seen to have a brand new itunes, so emptied the trash as they said expecting everything to be fine but it wasnt.

Setting up USB External Drive to Airport Extreme Base Station

I've attached an External Hard Drive to my AEBS. My base computer is connected to the AEBS via Ethernet Cable and can see the external drive under Networked Drive however it shows up twice as Drive Y and Drive Z both showing the exact same capacity.
My desktop computer is running windows vista, and my laptop is also running vista. My Laptop connects to the AEBS wirelessly. The laptop does not see this External Hard Drive. How do I get my laptop to recognize this drive? Shoule my external hard drive display with two different drive letters, or should it only appear as one? I've not had much luck using this feature of the airport extreme and was the basic reason i purchased the AEBS

The USB port on the AirPort Extreme will support drive formats of Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and FAT32. NTFS is not supported, so that might explain some of your difficulties.
What feature did I invoke that automatically established a "third" drive? Where is it established on the physically formatted Mac drive? Does the format of Appleshare just indicate how the partition is accessed?
Not sure about this. When I format a drive as Mac OS or FAT 32, I see a single drive when accessed from the Finder.

External Drive and Airport Extreme ?'s

I am using my airport extreme as a bridge for wireless printing (I currently have the AT&T U-Verse Residential Gateway as my router) and trying to use an external drive for both my imac and macbook for backup. I know I have accessed it a few times this way but now I get a message that says "can't find original item" or something to that effect. When I open the airport utility, I can see it as a disk, when I open finder, I click on my airport under shared and select my external drive and connect as me with the password. It takes a while to come up with the message cannot find original item. I can hear the external drive power up when I connect. Is there something I'm missing? I can plug it into both the imac and macbook directly and it works fine. I do have file sharing turned on. All suggestions appreciated. Thanks!

I have a new question, and perhaps I am supposed to start a "new question":
Actually, yes, you should if you want it to get the attention it deserves to solicate assistance from other users.
I am setting up this shared hard drive and it has the option under airport utility to "share disks over the internet using Bonjour. I checked this box and it directed me to create a global hose name and password, which I did. So now that that is done, how do I actually access my "global hose" when connected over 3G or not at home? What do I type in safari to get to it?
Interestingly, this option never seemed to ever get fully implemented as it required a combination of services that no one seems to offer. This service uses wide-area Bonjour.
Also, if I want to access with a Windows computer, it asks for WINS Server info. No idea what to put in there.
This option is not required so you can safely ignore it.

External drive and Airport Express

I want a backup drive at a not so obvious location. I bought a Trekstor DataStation maxi z.ul, which is supposed to be a network drive and an Airport Express. Installing the Express in the WLAN is simple, as usual. I have then installed the NDAS-Software that comes with the drive. No matter if I use the Ethernet or the USB between drive and Airport, The Drive cannot be found from ana computer. Is the Airport Express suited for this purpose or what am I doing wrong?

The AirPort Express should be able to do what you want, but it depends on how you have your base station configured.
In order to work, the drive needs to be connected to the LAN side of the network so that it can be seen by clients on the WLAN.
If your Express is acting as a gateway, running NAT to share a single WAN address amongst multiple wireless clients, then the single ethernet port on the Express is likely set as the external/WAN interface, separate from the LAN and therefore inacessible to the wireless network.
You need to provide more information on how your network is setup in order to tell if that's the problem.
How are you connecting to the internet?
Is your AirPort Express sharing a single IP address to multiple wireless clients?

Format an Ethernet Connected External Drive from PC to Mac System

Hi there, apologies for my ignorance however after suffering Windows PCs for 35 years I have finally changed over to 2 iMacs and loving it.
I have a new model WD 1 TB (MsDOS formatted) external drive attached to my router via ethernet.
My iMac (imac7,1 a running OS X 10.5.2) recognises the external drive as a "PC Server" fine and I can access it from Finder and copy files to it.
Unfortuneately NEITHER Disk Utility nor Timemachine recognises its existance.
I believe I may have to format the drive for the Mac system. However how can I do this if Disk Utility does not recognise it as a drive? Is there some utility available that allows me to format an Ethernet attached PC drive to the Mac system.
Thanking you in advance

Time Machine can't use a NAS drive even if it's formatted with a GUID partition map scheme and HFS+ Journaled. Apple dropped support for network drives before they released Leopard last year.
Apple does support their own Time Capsule device and network backups to Leopard Server running Time Machine Server.
There's not much point in formatting the drive at all if you ever plan to be able to connect to it with a PC.

Can't read iPhoto library from external drive via airport extreme base stat

I can't seem to open my iPhoto library from my external USB drive that is hooked and being shared through my airport extreme base station. If I plug the external drive directly to my mac via USB it works but not when going through the base station.
This only started happening when I upgraded from iLife'06 to iLife'08.
Anyone have any ideas on how to fix?

That's a problem that many are posting about. Haven't read of a solution yet. Be sure to report the problem to Apple at: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

Ethernet Connected external drive problem

I have a 500GB external drive that I connect to the home hub via ethernet. When I connect it to the home hub it does not appear in the connections list for the router and none of the computers can see it. The drive was working fine when it was connected to the router we used with our last broadband provider. Has anyone got any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Chris

Chead wrote:
Thanks C1Rider. I changed the IP address of the drive to be in the 192.168.1.x group and I also changed it from dynamic IP to static IP. Now I can now connect to the drive from all our machines.
The only strange thing is that when I look at the router settings the network drive still does not appear as connected to the router. This means I cannot use the "Always use this IP address" setting in the router.
Section 8 from this link should help make sure your Static IP addresses never wonder into the Homehub Dynamic allocated IP address range.
If you need to reset the Homehub make sure you record any needed settings so that you can re-enter them afterwards.
How to change the working IP range of a V2 hub
"I have this awful feeling someone is watching every move I make (one of my pet hates is router location tagging)." Marvin (A paranoid Android)

Can i connect hard drive to airport extreme in bridge mode

I just bought a hard drive and want have it connected to my airport extreme which is in bridge mode so that I can use it with U verse. Will I be able to backup my files on my macbook without connecting the usb on the hard drive to the macbook itself?

Will I be able to backup my files on my macbook without connecting the usb on the hard drive to the macbook itself?
This all depends on what you mean by backup your files.
Apple does not support Time Machine backups to a drive at the USB port of the AirPort Extreme, so if you are planning to use Time Machine, the better strategy would be to connect the drive directly to your Mac.
If you want to drag/drop or copy/paste regular data files to the hard drive, that should work OK
Remember that the drive should be formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as most store bought drives will come pre-formatted for Windows NTFS.
The USB port at the AirPort Extreme is under powered, so you almost always have to use a powered USB hub with a hard drive here....even if the drive has its own power supply.

Time Machine access to External Drive on Airport

I cannot get Time Machine to see my WD My Passport External Drive that is mounted on my Airport Extreme. Using Finder, I can see the My Passport Drive and can access it - for some reason it does not appear in the selection list when I try to configure time machine.
Can anyone help
Thank you.

do some searching concerning the format file system to be used such as HFS+, etc.

Can I backup to an external drive on airport extreme

Have Airport extreme with a usb port free for use- can I hang an external drive on it and use time machine to backup my macbook. I am new to Apple from the pc world and lovin it

I just updated the firmware on my extreme and am using it with a USB disk for Time Machine right now, It seems to be working fine...a little slow but working.

External drive over airport?

I wonder if it would be possible to plug a USB 2.0 splitter into my airport and run both a printer and external hard drive remotely?
Lawrence

No, again - you cannot. You need an external storage device with either a terrestrial or wireless interface
i built in.
Both
b iomega
and
b LaCie
build such external drives: here are links to their products
] http://www.iomega.com/direct/products/family.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolderid=31699021&ASSORTMENT%3C%3Eastid=63191&bmUID=1131296529156
] http://www.lacie.com/products/range.htm?id=10007
The best place to locate such devices is not at the end of a wireless network involving an AirPort Express, but rather at the head end, where a conventional AirPort base station, an ethernet switch or a router are located.

Will iMac (wired) USB keyboard connect external drive?

I have a recent iMac with the wired USB 2.0 keyboard.
When I connect a WD Passport portable USB external drive to the keyboard, I get a repeating click-click-click from the drive. It never shows up on the iMac.
If I plug the same external drive into the USB 3.0 slots on the back of the iMac, it fires right up.
Is that how it's supposed to work? Do the USB 2.0 slots on the keyboard not support a small external drive? It seems strange that it would cause the drive to whir and click, but not be recognized by the Mac.
Can anyone explain? Or is there something wrong with my keyboard?e

USB drives which don't have their own power supply usually won't work if plugged into a keyboard.
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Connecting external drive crashes iMovie 8 - Apple please fix this!

If I have external drives connected when I start iMovie 8 it will crash when it tries to index them.
Also if I have no drives connected and iMovie 8 running, the program will crash as soon as I connect a drive.
Apple, please fix this! I need to use external drives for storing of my videos.

Are your external drives formatted as Mac OS Extended / HFS+ ..? They should be.
If they aren't, you'll have to remove whatever's already stored on them, and then re-format them using Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility. You can then put back what was stored on them.
(P.S: I have NO crashes using iMovie '08 and any correctly-formatted external FireWire drives. I don't use external USB drives, as they're not fast enough for the sustained read/write speeds which video requires.)

Difference between internal and external drive on Airport extreme

I have one of the original Airport Extremes and I'm wondering if the new software that comes with the new Airport (Time Capsule) will allow me to use it with an external drive for Time Machine. I know it currently doesn't work as currently configured, but I would think it would be a trivial matter to make it work, How about it Apple?

Presumably the only software which will ship with Time Capsule is "AirPort Utility" to configure Time Capsule.
Speculation on whether any version of Time Capsule's firmware will be compatible with the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) is forbidden in this discussion area.
No one here knows and you could guess yourself to death. On one hand you would think Time Capsule is so similar to the square AEBS that it wouldn't be a problem. On the other hand even though the features are very similar, the square AEBS's firmware is not usable on the round AEBS.

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