Protecting Air Disk

Loving my new AEBSn with AirDisk, and figuring out all the capabilities. But one problem I encountered was this:
The data on my AirDisk feels very insecure. When I delete an item, it gives a warning message and then deletes it forever! Is there any way to set up protections on my disk so that I can add to the disk, use files on the disk, but have extra protection against accidental deletion of files?

With a Mirrored RAID, if you delete a file, it is deleted from both disks. So that wouldn't solve this particular issue.
Perhaps a solution would be attaching two disks to the AEBs, then creating a special folder on the computer you are using. You could write an applescript that copies anything added to that folder to both drives simultaneously, then removes it from that folder. You could then use the Mac OS folder action feature to make sure the script ran whenever a file was saved there.
Not super convenient, but it does save the file redundantly. When you open a file from an Air Disk you would then have to remember to do a 'Save As' to save it to the scripted folder.

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Pc recognizes air disk but files are not visible

i have an airport extreme and an express and after three days of fiddling almost everything is working. but on the pc i can open the air disk. in the info box the pc sees itincorrectly as a phat 32 disk even though it is hfs+. i am able to mount and open it but when it opens there are no files visible. if i plug the drive directly into the pc its all good. through the extreme network - cant see the files.

here is the solution. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=875688&tstart=240

Suddenly, my wireless connection (including Air Disk) is acting all screwy.

My airport express sometimes shows three of four airport bars and my connection becomes very intermittent. When the signal is full strnegth, everything seems to work, with the exception of my Air Disk. It simply won't mount anymore. I have never had these problems until the most recent updates. However, under a wired cnnection, everything works fine.
Is there some sort of a bug going on with all the latest Apple-latest wireless and airport drivers? This is pretty annoying.

I just had the same problem. Downgrading the airport firmware from 7.2 to 7.1 fixed it for me.
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Windows can't find air disk

I have been searching for a long time now and can't find any answer how get my windows xp to connect to air disk..! Can anyone help would be greatly appreciate.
( I use air disk to share data in office, not to syn or anything )
Thx

You need to install the Airport Base Station Disk Agent software that comes on the installer disk with the Airport Base Station. You might be able to download the software from Apple, too. This will put an icon on your system tray that allows you to access the AirDisk.

2 Airports and 4 Air Disks - Advice before I buy

Hi all,
A little bit of background. My wife and I are both film buffs and have stacks of DVDs. Quite often we watch a movie in bed using our laptop streaming MP4 files. Works well. However, I have quite a lot of external HDDs hanging off my lovely iMac and this defeats the purpose of the beautiful design
Here is what I have: downstairs: broadband and an airport extreme.
Here is what I would like to do: broadband and airport extreme downstairs. A further extreme in my spare room with 4 air disks attached for backups and streaming movies to any of my machines. Furthermore, I would like the two extremes and their disks to be seen as one both from a wireless connection point of view and also access to the air disks.
What I mean is can I connect to my extreme downstairs and still access my air disks on my second extreme upstairs and can I connect to my extreme upstairs and access my broadband downstairs.
Sorry it is a bit long winded but want to make sure I explain why I want this: my wife does not want our living room looking like a plate of spaggetti made of USB leads.
Regards
SteveGB13

You could get a second Airport Extreme Base Station, configure it as a remote base station, and configure your existing Base Station as a main base station. You would then have a single wireless network with everything on it accessible from anywhere.
A few other considerations:
1. What is the total amount of file storage you need? You might consider getting the newly released Airport Time Capsule. It has a built in 1TB hard drive, which might be sufficient for all your needs.
2. The performance (with video streaming) is an unknown until you set this all up. The main/remote base station setup I described above will reduce by half your wireless network's maximum possible data rate, which could be significant for video streaming performance.

Air Disk disconnection

Hi everyone,
I've just bought a Airport Extreme N, and I already have a problem with AirDisk.
I can see the shares on the network, mount them, but none can remain mounted more than a few minutes.
The logs just say: "Disk sd0 (...) plugged in" oi "Disk sd0 (...) unlugged".
When I plug the usb drive right to my iBook, everything is just... well... working as expected.
The hard drive has been formated in HFS+, its usb enclosure is a generic one, but brand new also.
Thanks in advance,
Xavier Cambar

I have the same problem I think. My air disk is there for a little bit then disappears (if I'm reading your post correctly). The problem with mine is my drive going to sleep. Network drives can not go to sleep. If they do your AEBS will not be able to wake it up the same way pluging it directly into your computer would. It will simply disappear (or lock up your finder for a nice amount of time). Good luck finding a way to stop your HD from sleeping. I've been working on it for 2 weeks now and can not find a way to do it. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. but in the meantime I either have to get a new enclosure. Or wait for Apple to solve it.

Air Disk + BitTorrent?

I've done a bit of searching but I just haven't been able to find a straight answer. I currently utilize a 500GB MyBook (Powered / 7200RPM / USB2.0) for all of my TimeMachine backups and for random assorted files, mostly larger movies and the like. I'm also an avid BitTorrent user. At any given time, I probably have about 200 (legal, of course : p ) torrents seeding within Transmission. The bad thing is, this takes up enormous amounts of space, and my 120GB internal HDD is starting to burst at the seams. My question is, is Air Disk a reliable storage medium for seeding torrents? If through wireless n i can get the same speeds as a can with a USB 2.0 drive, or at least something close, I'll be switching to that method. So much more convenient than being physically tethered to a drive. Thanks in advance for any info!

USB 2.0 Hi-speed is rated for a maximum speed of 480Mbps. The real-world, sustained speed is significantly lower. 802.11n has a maximum transfer speed of 300Mbps; real-world, sustained speed is also lower.
So 802.11n would be the bottleneck to your transfer speed. Connecting directly to the computer through USB would definitely yield faster speeds.
All that being said, if 802.11n gives you 50Mbps sustained (just a random number I picked), that's still around 6MB (megabytes) per second. In all likelihood, your Internet connection would not consistently be running at that speed.
It's generally safe to say that the Internet connection itself would be the biggest bottleneck; making the other issues moot points. However, why not give it a shot and see how it works?

Air Disk management

How are we supposed to handle the Air Disk with the APBS?
For example, the Air Disk is running and mounted on my Mac. Then, I can eject it but if I turn the HD off, I hear the heads click out, as if it was still in service. So is there a way to manage this or is it supposed to run days n' night?
Thanks for your opinions on this.

Thanks for your reply DaddyPaycheck. Yes, I think that Energy saving is a good point here (for me). Even if my Airdisk enclosure has a fan, it was pretty hot after running for about 50 hrs.
Maybe Apple should give more options to the Airdisk configurations in the Airport Utility as with Energy Saver in system Preferences. Then we can choose to shut down the Airdisk when not use for a ∆t delay. Another way could be with an "augmented" version of Airport Disk Utility.
Also, I didn't find any documentations on a full Airdisk management. They only explain, in the installation guide, how to turn it on but - strangely - not how to turn it off. What if you're not at home for a couples of weeks and want to store your Airdisk HD in another place?
The only thing I can see is to unplug the USB and replug it directly to the computer. Then do the "traditional" ejecting procedure. But this is passably annoying.
Airdisk function is quite new for Apple, we'll give them time to improve it.

Air Disk Problems: either miniStack v2.5 or Western Digital's 1.0TB Green?

Anyone still having Air Disk problems with either the miniStack 2.5 or the WD10EADS?
Using it as a Air Disk/hub with AEBSn (firmware 7.4.2) connecting to MBP1.83 running 10.4.10. It worked fine in this configuration for almost 2 months. The drive does not appear in finder or disk utility even when connected directly through USB or Firewire, so I'm sending the ministack back to OWC. I was just checking here to make sure that it wasn't something on Apple's end before I head to the local UPS store.

Sorry, I'm using 10.4.11

Air Disk still not working. . .

OK, so my air disk was working but like many, not so much now. . .i have read many of the posting but nothing has worked so far. Can anyone forward here info that made their air disk work? I am in a MAcBook Pro, AE, System 10.5.1, ( the remote disk was working with this AE before Leopard. Not nada. Please advise, please.

Disk Utility works...
It just takes a long time.
You don't say what version of Leopard you are running and it is not in your profile....
10.5 take about 1 hour or more to repair permissions..
10.5.1 takes from 30 minutes to an hour approximately...
Give it time, it will finish...
With 10.5.1 the blue bar says less than a minute and stays there for many minutes...
This bar should say "Less than an hour" instead of minute.......

Exciting times with the Air Disk: Drive format and Remote access

What a great addition to the Air Port.
Tell me this, since the Air Port extreme is Mac+PC compatible, can my external drive be formated NTFS and still work with a Mac on the network?
Also, can someone point me to a resource for accessing the Air Disk remotely? This sounds fantastic!! I keep my iTunes library on an external drive, with Air Disk I could access (stream?) the files remotely, no?
Steve

Apple has not published any of these details AND the devices haven't shipped yet.
So no one here knows the answers to these questions.

Open An Encrypted, Password Protected Saprsebundle Disk Image With iPhone?

Is it possible to open an encrypted, password protected sparsebundle disk image using an iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch that is stored on a NAS drive connected to an AirPort Extreme Base Station?
If so, how do I do it?
If not, would you be able to explain why not?
Thanks, Alex

Hi Robert,
> Once you through a sudo in there, you lose the option
to have a regular user
   That's not really true. Sudo is one of the most flexible commands around and not only can a regular user use it but they can use it without a password. Mind you I'm not suggesting that you make all users admins; you can specify both of these privileges for this command only. All you have to do is to put a line like the following in your /etc/sudoers file. (with sudo visudo of course)
ALL ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/hdiutil create -encryption -certificate*-stdinpass -type SPARSE -fs "HFS+" -volname-size
I've included wildcards so that the cert file, volume name, size and image are arbitrary but the others must be in the user's command to qualify. I realize that you'll want different options to use FileVault certs but I don't know how to do that so I used your original example as my example.
   Of course it wouldn't be that easy for your lusers to get all of those options correct so the next thing you do is to wrap the command, with it's sudo preface, in a shell script that parses the cert file, volume name, size and image from the options the user passes to the script and puts those into the command with the right syntax. If you want to get really fancy, the script could prompt the user for any arguments that were omitted. Your lusers will think that you created this really cool command and never know that sudo was involved.
Gary
~~~~
   If you give a man enough rope, he'll claim he's tied up
   at the office.

Password-protected Sparse Disk Image Bundle remembered after eject

I use password-protected Sparse Disk Image Bundles to protect some files. Every now and then, when I open the image, it doesn't ask me for the password and opens immediately.
At first, I thought I may have inadvertantly agreed to save the password in Keychains. But that is not the case. After running some tests, I noticed it may take up to 3 ejects before it asks me for the password again. It seems to happen more when I modify files in the disk image, but not when I simply read files. I suspect it is not completely unmounting the image.
This is potentially a security issue. Any suggestion on what I can do short of re-ejecting images until it asks for a password again?

You may have successfully increased the sparsebundle's potential capacity while failing to resize the contained partition. That seems to be what happened when I tried this myself. A resized sparsebundle containing the same files would not occupy much more space on disk than it did before.
*Provided you have a backup*, you could try the following:
Remount the image, then run Disk Utility and select the .sparsebundle (non-indented icon) in the left pane. Click on the Partition tab, and then see if you can pull down the lower right corner of the disk image partition to increase its size. If you can, then drag it to the bottom and click Apply.
Again don't try this without a backup. It may not be worth doing in any event - it's easy enough just to make a new, bigger sparsebundle and copy your stuff over.

IBook does not see Air Disk on AirPort Extreme

We have a few macs in my house (G5 desktop, MBP CD2, and an iBook G4). Both the G5 and the MBP see the Air Disk connect to the AE network but the iBook doesn't. iBook is running 10.3.9 and I use the "go" menu to connect to the server (IP address for the AE basestation). It worked last night with a different drive that I was testing. I purchased a new enclosure (Newer Tech's miniStack). The HD is a WD 250 GB. The AE basestation is set up to connect to the disk via the basestation's password.
Thanks.
Tom

To access the disk attached to the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) your iBook must be upgraded to OS 10.4.8 or better. See AirPort Extreme (802.11n) - Technical Specifications.

Cannot connect to Air Disk on Wired PC.

I cannot connect to my air disk on a wired PC. It gives me an invalid user or password (error 5) Message. I can connect just fine via my Wireless PC. Odd.
Any ideas?

Urp, make that error 1203.

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