Connecting to Airport Disks

When I try to connect to the external hard drives attached to the Airport extreme, I get this error message: "Could not connect to the disk. Make sure NetBIOS is enabled and try again (53)." I use WinXP, and as far as I can tell, I've got the NetBIOS enabled checked off in the TCP/IP settings. So, what's missing, what am I not doing? I tried browsing through these discussion groups, but, all I find is older posts, and all related to the Time Capsule. I look forward to replies, and suggestions. Please keep in mind I'm a novice computer user. Thanks!

Sorry, I don't have a PC handy here to be able to duplicate your setup.
Working strickly from memory here.....so you may get better results by either trying another post with this specific subject, or you can wait to see if another user responds.
You'll need to know the IP address of your AirPort Exreme on your network. Open AirPort Utility and click on the AirPort Extreme on the left and look for the IP address on the right. It may be something like 10.0.1.1 or similar.
You will also need to know the name of your AirPort Extreme, and device password for your AirPort Extreme (not the wireless network password)
On your PC:
Open My Computer
Tools
Map Network Drive
DriveZ:
Folder
\\10.0.1.x\AirPort Extreme (Enter the IP address of the AirPort Extreme and the name of your AirPort Extreme)
Click Finish
User Name....enter your name
Password.....enter the device password for your AirPort Extreme
Any luck?

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Connect to airport disk when through internet

Hello,
I have a mac book running 10.6.8 At home I have an apple "airport extreme" router with a WD external hard drive connected via USB, the disk works fine at home. I know it is possible to connect to the external hard drive(airport disk) via the internet when I'm not at home. But I can't seem to find any guidance to my situation. I also have a mobileme account and I thought I should be able to do it with "back to my mac" but I can't get either method to work.
Any help, advice or links would be appreciated!!

You have at least two routes to be able to access the AirPort Disk from the Internet: 1) Back to My Mac (BTMM) / MobileMe (easiest), or 2) Configure the AirPort for Port Mapping.
I suggest trying the BTMM method first.
As you already know BTMM is tied to an individual's MobileMe account.
Let's go over your BTMM setup, just to make sure something wasn't missed.
BTMM - General Requirements
OS X Leopard 10.5.4+
Active MobileMe account. Each Mac & the AirPort router, that will be relying on BTMM, needs to be configured with the same account.
A publicly reachable IP address for your AirPort router.
A router that supports either NAT-PMP or UPnP. Note: All AirPorts supports NAT-PMP.
BTMM - Basic Communication Flow
For a computer connected to the Internet via a router, BTMM "asks" the router for its configuration information. For a router, like your AirPort, that uses NAT-PMP, BTMM will ask the router to assign arbitrary public ports. In turn, the router will provide these port assignments (& the router's Public IP address) back to BTMM.
BTMM then sends this information to the MobileMe account. In background MobileMe updates a special set of DNS entries to be used by BTMM. These entries are then made available to all BTMM clients using your MobileMe account. When a computer, with BTMM enabled, uses your MobileMe credentials, it automatically retrieves a list of all other computers/routers that are registered with the same account. All these devices should then appear under the SHARED section of the Finder.
When attempting to connect to a remote computer (or router), BTMM creates a secure connection to that remote device using the information from the MobleMe account.
Once the connection is established, the devices can then communicate with each other.
For a router, the key is that if the ISP doesn't offer you a publicly reachable IP address then BTMM won't work. You will then have to look for an alternative solution, like BackToMyPC or LogmeIn.
On both routers (Apple Only)
Using the AirPort Utility, verify the following:
AirPort Utility > Select the AirPort > Manual Setup > Internet > NAT
Enable NAT Port Mapping Protocol (enabled)
AirPort Utility > Select the AirPort > Manual Setup > Advanced > MobileMe
Click the plus button to add your MobileMe account information. Any HDDs attached to the AirPort (or both the Time Capsule's internal HDD and attached USB HDD) will now appear in the SHARED section of the Finder on BTMM-enabled computers using the same MobileMe account.

Multiple Users Connected to Airport Disk at Same Time

It used to be that I could have multiple user accounts on my MBP connected at the same time to my AirPort Extreme Base Station (802.11n). Now, every time I switch users, I have to reconnect to the AEBS, which in turn seems to disconnect the other user. File Sharing is set up to allow connections via the AEBS password, which always worked fine in the past.
I'm not sure what has changed in my setup, other than installing Snow Leopard (which I don't assume changed anything in this regard).
Any ideas will be most appreciated.

Sorry no one has answered this question. I have the exact problem. I have two user accounts on my MBP. I selected connecting AEBS via AEBS password, too. I can connect with one account and see everything on the disk. When I switch to the other account, it sees the disk but nothing on it. If I disconnect from the disk in that account and then reconnect to the disk, the second account sees everything on the disk. Switching back to the first account, it now can see nothing on the disk and the disk emblem has an icon on it which indicates no access. Clicking on the disk tells me I have no access privileges for the disk. I can then do the same as I did on the second account - use the disconnect button, reconnect, and then all files appear. Of course, when going back to the second account, can no longer access the information. I can do this all day switching back and forth, disconnecting and reconnecting. Obviously, this is not the way it is suppose to work.
I am using snow leopard also.
I have tried setting the disk up by using accounts - created two user accounts and passwords In the Airport Utility application. I can access the disk but nothing shows up on it. I suppose I could have created stuff on it and it would not have been available to the other account. Still, not the way I want to use it. I think I tried using the disk password method also and I think it reacted just like the user account issue or maybe the other---neither will keep both users logged in and have access to whatever is on the disk - which is how I want to use it.
I add this reply in hopes that someone will read both accounts and give us both an answer. OR, if the original poster now has the answer, please provide!!!
Troup Nightingale

Problems connecting to Airport Disk

Have an airport Extreme with 1 Hard drive now installed. I have two Macbooks and a MacPro that can access the sharepoint fine but I have on Macbook Pro which will not connect, it seems that Finder just waits forever for a connection. I can connect to the network OK just not the disk
What have I screwed up on the mac? Is there a plist or something I need to delete or reset?
Thanks

Problem solved it was the AEBS. Powered it down for 30secs then restarted seemed to solve the problem. Obviously Resetting it from the Airport Utility does not fully "Reset" it.

1 Macbook Pro can not connect the Airport Disk Others OK!

Have an airport Extreme with 1 Hard drive now installed. I have two Macbooks and a MacPro that can access the sharepoint fine but I have on Macbook Pro which will not connect, it seems that Finder just waits forever for a connection.
What have I screwed up on the mac? Is there a plist or something I need to delete or reset?
Thanks

Problem solved it was the AEBS. Powered it down for 30secs then restarted seemed to solve the problem. Obviously Resetting it from the Airport Utility does not fully "Reset" it.

Apple TV connect on AirPort Disk

Hi,
I would like to know if at my apple tv can i watch my movies on

If you are asking if you can watch movies on your ATV that are stored on a disk that is connected to your APE, then no and yes, sort of.
1. you can''t do it directly. ATV needs a server sendng the files.
2. If your comuter is configured with itunes able to access those files on the APEdisk, perhaps as the storage location, then yes IF the computer is running itunes actively and it has access to the network and the network disk. But as far as the ATV is concerned, you are just browsing and streaming from yuor computer. ⓖ

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.

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!

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)

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

Not able to see disk connected to AirPort Extreme 802.11n

I just installed my AirPort Extreme 802.11n Wireless Base station. Wireless internet works like a charm, however, I cannot see my external hard disk when it is connected to the base station (amber light blinking and when checking the problem, I am told that "Disk needs repair"). When connecting the hard disk directly to the PC, I have no problem seeing the data. Any tips or tricks out there... ?
AirPort Extreme 802.11n Windows XP

I finally got my 500 GB Western Digital MyBook USB drive to work by reformatting it to HFS+ format.
Of course, before I could do that, I had to copy all my files onto another hard drive. That job took a day to accomplish.
I work with Poser, and have a lot of content installed... We're talking thousands of files.
Once the drive was reformatted to HFS+ format, I copied everything back over. That took another day. Then I connected to the AEBS.
The USB drive was immediately recognized. It was incredibly easy to access the USB drive on my PCs. It required no effort on my part, except to supply the password.
In the end, I've decided this effort is a failure.
The drive is way too slow for my needs. Also, one of my vital Poser utilities (CorrectReference Pro) will not work properly with the USB drive on the AEBS.
I am currently in the process of copying all those files over to two external USB hard drives attached to my other PC.
Then I plan to unmount my 500 GB MyBook drive, and reformat it back to NTFS. I'll let the Notebook PC have it on a direct connection again.
I have a couple "junk" External Hard drives that are 160 GB. Maybe I'll use one of those as an Airport disk...
But I won't be using the Airport disk for anything important. It's too slow.

Using time machine backup on disk connected to airport extreme router?

So I've read a number of articles about using an external hard drive connected to the airport extreme base station as a time machine backup. The thing is that I'm writing this in august 09, most of the articles (which say the feature is officially unsupported) date about a year and a half ago. I'm wondering if there have been any developments since then.

I also have this problem -- it started about 2 weeks ago (around July 20?), possibly at the time the new Airport Extreme firmware went into effect. I have two separate Mac laptops that each use Time Machine to back up to different disks that are attached to the Airport Extreme (i.e., each laptop has its own backup-destination disk). Both were working flawlessly before (for more than 6 months); now, each one reliably drops the connection to the disk (produces an error message, and thereafter cannot re-connect to the destination disk until I cycle the Airport Extreme with power-off/on). I had hoped that 10.5.8 would help (the release notes talked about improved stability with Airport connections), but not so.

Can I access my files stored in the hard disk connected to airport extreme when I am away? how?

Can I access my files stored in the hard disk connected to airport extreme when i am away? How?

You can't technically. iPads cannot directly read HDDs like a computer can.
You will need an app liie FileBrowser to do this. Of course all file operations will be done through the App itself.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/filebrowser-access-files-on/id364738545?mt=8

Airport Extreme loses connection to USB disk

Recently I upgraded my Airport extreme to 7.4.2 software. Since that time AE I keep losing connection to the disk when copying large files or after browsing on it for a while.
The drive is simply gone (no share advertised)
The only way to get it accessible again is by resetting the AE (soft reset via airport utility)
Is there a way to revert to the previous software (there appears to be no newer SW or fix at the moment)?
My config is as follows:
Airport Extreme 802.1n operating a 5GHz wireless N network, 1TB Seagate (Seagate FreeAgent 102D) external USB drive attached to it (formatted with MAC filesystem)
on the ethernet port is a linksys router acting as a Wireless G Accesspoint (for my wife's Windows laptop)

Toryn Farr wrote:
I've been having exactly the same problem. The Macs on my LAN will all continue to have Internet access. On any of them, the base station still shows up in a Finder window under "shared"... but if I click on it, it will think for a moment and then say "Connection Failed" where it normally says "Connected As: USER NAME". And then none of my computers can access the shared volumes until I reboot the router.
I'm having exactly this same problem.
Not sure where the problem comes from, but here is my environment:
Airport Express (older model) Version 6.3 as WDS remote
Airport Extreme (version 7.4.2) as WDS base station
Powerbook G4 (1.33 Ghz)
PowerMac G4 (Mirror Drive Door)
iTunes 9.0
I've had problems with my Hard Disk access from the Airport Extreme. I have Time Machine running automatically from two different machines to the same plugged in HD on the Airport Extreme. I get messages indicating that the backup can't be mounted. Once that occurs, I have to reboot the Airport.
Just like Toryn says, once you get Connection Failed, you must reboot the router.

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How can I access a USB disk drive connected to Airport Extreme from a Windows 7 PC?

...Called it a roaming network. Wireless mode is create a wireless network. I have checked allow this network to be extended. Probably need to uncheck that?
Yes, that option should be deselected as it only pertains to when both routers are interconnected by wireless. Since you have a roaming network, they of course, would be interconnected by Ethernet.
The other important settings for a roaming network are:
Each router must have a unique station name. For the AirPort, this would be called its Base Station Name. I believe the default station name for Linksys routers is: linksys
Each router must broadcast a wireless network with an identical Network Name. For the Linksys, Network Name is the same as its SSID.
Each router wireless network must use the same Wireless Security type and password. The Linksys WRT-54G is capable of up to WPA2 Personal. If you have it set to this level of security, the AirPort should be at the same setting.
Make sure that each router is not on the same Radio Channel for the 2.4 GHz radio. In the US, there are basically only three non-overlapping channels: 1, 6, or 11. Set each so that they don't use the same channel but use of those three choices.

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