How to share external USB drive connected to airport time capsule

I have a 4TB Seagate USB Hard Drive connected to my Airport Time Capsule. The Time Capsule connected to a newer iMac running Maverick.
I use the Time Capsule for Time Machines Backups and as a Router, as it was designed for.
I want to use the external Seagate drive to share content with other devices (Mac, IOS, Windows) on my home network
Problem: I cannot figure out how to SHARE the external Seagate drive so that any other devices can see it.
Steps tried: Go to System Preferences, Sharing, and I am unable to add this Seagate drive to list of sharable objects. It is grayed out.

the drive is formatted as AppleShare. Is that a potential problem?
No, that is the correct setting if you want to share out the drive.
Finally, when I run Disk Utility I don't see the Seagate drive (nor the Time Capsule) at all.
Remember that the Time Capsule is a network drive. Any other drive connected to the USB port on the Time Capsule is also a network drive.
Disk Utility cannot be used on a network drive. It only works on a drive that is directly attached to a Mac. If you need to partition the USB drive or something similar, you will need to connect it directly to your Mac for the operation.
Otherwise, everything looks correct in AirPort Utility.

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Apple has a 'bunch' of articles on sharing iTunes.
Or look at the networking. And then whether you want to put MacDrive on the PC, or use NTFS format and NTFS driver (commercial or free MacFUSE).
And probably want to ask or look in iTunes for Mac and Windows discussions, too.
Most of the things I have (bookmarked) deal with Leopard, not Tiger, so not sure but pretty sure networking is now slightly different.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/

HT2426 how do i access my external hard drive connected to my time capsule 4th gen

how do i acess my external hard drive (wd) that is connected to my time capsule using a macbook pro?

Make sure that the drive has been formatted correctly to work with the Time Capsule.
That means a format of Mac OS Extended (Journaled)....highly recommended.....or FAT32.
Once this is checked, open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click on the Time Capsule icon, then click Edit
Click the Disks tab at the top of the screen
If the USB port on the Time Capsule can supply enough power to the hard drive, you will see the name of the drive displayed in the window, per the example below:
If you have the correct format on the drive, and it does not appear, this is an indication that the USB port on the Time Capsule (which is under powered), does not have enough power to work with your hard drive.......even if the hard drive has its own power supply.
In this case, you will need to use a powered USB hub with the Time Capsule to provide enough current for the hard drive.
Now you should be able to access the drive using the Finder to mount it on the desktop.

I am having an issue with connecting my external hard drive to my airport time capsule.

I just recently purchased the new AirPort Time Capsule. The network set-up easily. However, when I connected my external hard drive (via USB) to it, the external hard drive does not show up in my Finder and I am otherwise unable to access the external hard drive from any computer connected the the network. When I plug the external hard drive in directly to my iMac, the external hard drive is recognized right away and I am able to access all folders. Any tips?

Check to make sure that the drive is formatted in Mac OS Extended Journaled or FAT32.
If the drive is formatted correctly and recognized by the Time Capsule, it will appear when you open AirPort Utility and click on the Disks tab.
Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > AirPort Utility
Click the Time Capsule icon, then click Edit
Click the Disks tab at the top of the next page
If the drive is formatted correctly and not recognized, you will likely need to use a powered USB hub with the drive....even if the drive has its own power supply, since the USB port on the Time Capsule tends to be underpowered.

Can I share a USB drive connected to Airport Express

I know that you can with the Extreme Base Station. Just curious if a drive connected to the
Express would show up as a shared network drive

pgoodwin wrote:
Just curious if a drive connected to the Express would show up as a shared network drive
no.
airport express does not support connecting external drives to it. essentially, it's printers only.

Can I backup to a USB drive connected to my Time Capsule?

I can't seem to find much documentation on what the USB port on the Time Capsule is for. I see it's useful for attaching printers and external hard drives. But if I connect a USB hard drive, can I run Time Machine and then pick either the Time Capsule drive or the USB drive to back up to?
Will I be able to backup wirelessly from my MacBook Pro?
Can I then also backup wired to my ethernet-connected iMac (at a faster speed) ?
In other words, the TIme Capsule is capable of automatically backing up both wired and wirelessly, right?

dougkramer wrote:
... if I connect a USB hard drive, can I run Time Machine and then pick either the Time Capsule drive or the USB drive to back up to?
see this user tip: http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/2.html
Will I be able to backup wirelessly from my MacBook Pro?
yes. however, it is recommended that the initial backup is done using a hardwired connection.
Can I then also backup wired to my ethernet-connected iMac (at a faster speed) ?
see above
In other words, the TIme Capsule is capable of automatically backing up both wired and wirelessly, right?
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I cannot access the external hard drive connected to my time capsule via wifi

I have two external hard drives (a WD mybook and an older Seagate, both HFS+ formatted) connected via a USB hub to my time capsule (which is also my wifi router).
Here's the funny thing: If I a connect my mac mini to the time capsule via an ethernet cable, both disks show up as normal in Finder - along with 'Data' under Time Capsule under Shared.
But if I disconnect the ethernet cable and connect to the router via wifi, there's no sign at all of the two disks - not in Finder, and not under 'Disks' in the Airport Utility.
Anyone out there with a solution?!

Hi William, and thanks for replying.
I do have a guest network set up (for exactly that reason that guests don't get access to shared disks) but am definitely not connected to it.
So sadly it has to be something else.

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I'm not sure about whether Time Machine can include a drive that is a month out of date in a normal rotation.
This won't be a "normal" rotation. Assuming that you have already configured Time Machine on each Mac to back up to the USB drive, when you connect the drive to the Time Capsule, you will need to manually click Backup Now on a Mac to get the backup started. Then, do the same with other Macs that you want to back up.
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Backing up to external hard drive connected to the Time Capsule?

I have connected an external hard-drive to the 1TB TC. Using the Time Machine settings, I cannot select this disk to backup too, even though this disk is accessible via the finder > timecapsule > external drive.
My general issue is:
I have a 2TB hard drive on the iMac and im attaching a 2Tb harddrive to the TC, to backup to instead of the 1TB TC, wirelessly.

Foxxer wrote:
i just went to the mac store http://www.kontain.com/david/entries/77001/chelsea-and-i-at-soho-apple-store-rig ht-now-just-picked-up-a-4tb-raid/ and i asked the genius people there, they said its not possible. I dont really buy that though.
They often know very little about Time Machine, partly because they don't actually use it in the stores.
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My external hard drive connected to my time capsule does not appear in Finder

My Mac formatted external hdd doesn't appear in the TC folder in finder. It did once, but every time i shut down the computer or don't use it for a long time, it dissapears and only appears again if i disconnect it, connect it back again and try this 4-5 times. I do have the latest software updates on both computer and TC so that's not the problem. The hdd has it's own power supply aswell.
I know this is a somewhat common problem for airport extreme users, but so far no one has given me an answer good enough so the problem still exists.

Well, let's see...
I've updated the software on the TS
I formated the ext hdd to mac os x and then copied all my stuff back again.
I've tried to disconnect it and reconnect it.
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Whenever I connect the ext hdd to my computer it always appears, so it's clearly no problem with the hardware.
Unfortunately I don't know any one else who has a TS och Airextreme, otherwise I would've tried it on their.
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How do I access external hard drive connected to AirPort Extreme via iPad

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How do I access external hard drive connected to AirPort Extreme via iPad / windows laptop.
I donot have a Mac and I use windows laptop.

For your iPad, you will need an app, like FileBrowser, to access the external drive.
For your Windows laptop, you would access the drive like any other network share. The basic format is: \\<servername>\<sharename>, where, in this case, the servername is the base station name and the sharename is the name of the external drive.

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Do I need to keep my external hard drive connected at all times for time capsule?

Do I need to keep my external hard drive connected at all times for time capsule?

Hi,
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I found this when searching Apple's web site but it is old, October 2007, and said it could not be done. Has this changed since then?
Here is what I found.
Mac OS X 10.5: Time Machine doesn't back up to AirPort Disks
* Last Modified on: October 26, 2007
* Article: 306833
Time Machine in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard can be used to back up to many kinds of Mac OS Extended-formatted drives, but it does not support AirPort Extreme's AirPort Disk feature.
Time Machine can back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing, or to a Leopard Server volume, or an Xsan storage device.

How to backup an external hard drive plugged into a time capsule using time machine

How to backup an external hard drive plugged into a time capsule using time machine.
I want to move my itunes library from the mac HD to an external plugged into the time capsule, but I want to be sure this drive will still be backed up by time machine. I currentlly see no way to do this.

There is no way. You can connect the drive to your Mac and remove it from the Time Machine exclusion list. Then it will be backed up, but that will stop when you reconnect it to the TC. While it's connected to the TC, you can copy it manually to another AirPort Disk by following the instructions here (with a slight modification):
Using AirPort Utility to make a copy of the Time Capsule disk

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