Share a Hard Drive

I would like to use an Airport to share a HD on my wireless network.
Is it possible to access the shared HD from the internet (ie. while away from home and not logged into the network)? If so, it the ability to do this a function of the router or the HD? Can I use an Airport? Do I need a specific HD with any specific feature to do this?

Is it possible to access the shared HD from the internet (ie. while away from home and not logged into the network)?
Yes
If so, it the ability to do this a function of the router or the HD?
A device acting as a file server is required. A 'router' typically does not provide this functionality. Also a hard drive alone usually does not provide this functionality.
Can I use an Airport?
The new square 802.11b/g/n AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) does offer this functionality. The new square AEBS is a router, wireless base station, print server, and file server all rolled into one.
Do I need a specific HD with any specific feature to do this?
To connect to the AEBS, you need a USB hard drive.

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Hi George
You can share your hard drive files through Personal File Sharing. By default, this will share out your user folder (or the whole hard drive, if you log in as admin), but you can customize this more using SharePoints (which I recommend).
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The new iMac's don' t have DVD drives however almost all have a disk drive. The easiest method of installing MS Office for Mac on your new iMac is to download it from Microsoft and then input the code you received when you purchased your original license. Otherwise you can use the DVD drive on your MBP to install on your iMac, that feature is called Remote Disc. Instructions for Remote Disc can be found at:http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5287

IS it possible to share external hard drive Mac To Mac, over a PC network,

I would like to explain this situation in it's own post so it's clear. I am at my brother's house (PC user) and both my wife and I are Mac users who are on the network. I have an external hard drive which is plugged directly into my wife's Macbook. I am trying to access it from my Macbook pro. This is my first time sharing and this is what I have done:
I went into "sharing" on her Macbook and turned file sharing on.
I added the mounted drive as a 'shared folder' and made everyone able to read and write.
Under 'options' I checked all of the boxes, including AFT, SMB and FTP (was I suppose to do this?)
Now, when I am on my Macbook Pro I look at the network and I see the PC network server, and her Macbook there (along with another weird network folder called "Mac001ff3cdf6ff", which I'll get to in a minute)
When I click on her computer and connect, I see the folders there which I've previously been able to share.
However, there is no external drive to be seen, even though it is mounted on her desktop of her Macbook downstairs.
When I go back and connect to this strange network folder called "Mac001ff3cdf6ff", however, I see again all the folders that I see when I click on my wife's Macbook folder AND the external hard drive..which is great...BUT, why can't I see this when I click on her Macbook folder? I did notice too that the icon is a PC icon for "Mac001ff3cdf6ff" when I click on 'more info, says "PC server".
Does this mean that the only way for me to access the external hard drive is through a PC server and this is the 'long way around' to get into the external drive? And why can't I connect directly from my wife's Macbook icon in the network folder?
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Is there anyone out there who has had success with sharing an external hard drive over a network from Mac to Mac? I just can't figure this out! It's so weird. When I look in the network places I see the icon for my wife's computer, and the PC ones of my brother in law's drives connected to the network. And ONE of those PC icons (you know, the one with the blue screen of death on them?) is labeled with "mac934ffsg" or something similar. I've been experimenting and when I add the hard drive in "shared", or if I add another folder in 'shared' on her computer it is THIS icon in the network that is updated.
Does anybody come close to my situation? Is there anyone sharing a couple different Macs over a network set up with PC's?
This is driving me batty...

Share a Hard Drive with Multiple Drives and Users

Background: I have an Airport Extreme (4th Generation) with two external hard drives connected via USB 2.0 and USB hub. I have Airport Utility setup to allow access to both drives via user accounts and passwords. From what I have gathered the way in which the user accounts and passwords work is the Airport Extreme makes two directories at to root level of the hard drive, 'Users' and 'Shared'. All files located in the 'Shared' directory are available to all user accounts setup in Airport Utility. Within the 'Users' directory are sub-directories named for each user account that is setup. All files located within the user directories are available to each respective user.
My trouble is the ability to see both the 'Shared' folders and the respective user folder when I authenticate with a user account. I am able to see the files in the 'Shared' directory on each of the two disks but it seems I am only able to see one of the user account directories and files.
Questions: My two questions are:
1) Is my understanding outlined above correct?
2) How might I be able to see the user directory on both disks as well as the 'Shared' directory on both disks.
I am hoping to still be able to use user accounts to access the disks as I have multiple people who store their files.

It didn't. After a night of testing, I found that I could get the router to at least let me create shares if I partitioned it as an MBR drive (GPT would not work at all), but it would not even rcognize a partition sized to 2TiB (tebibytes, 2048 GiB) or even one sized to 2TB (terabytes). The most it would recognize through my trial and error was about 1.5TiB, which I found odd.
This setup would have been too onerous, as it would have made about 746GiB completely unusable on the drive (outside the largest area referenced by an MBR partition table), and I would have had a main partition for files and one that would be invisible to the router (it only read the first partition, obviously).
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I started out with the same problem a few years back. And this led me to think wider.
I have a Mac Mini (as a blind server) hanging in my network. It has a 24/7 external HD (24/7 is important as all cheap HD are not made to run day in day out, I wonder even if the Lacie d2 Network2 is a 24/7 HD) attached to it that is accessible to the whole network.
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On top of it, it holds al the Time machine backups for every machine in the network.
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I have and external hard drive connected to my mac-mini OSX 10.4.11
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I have the computers connected to a router and I can see the mac files from the pc but I cannot see the external hard drive that is mounted on the desktop of the mac.
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Or.... If there is a way that I can duplicate my 80 gigs of music onto the pc that would be great.
I also tried to see the pc from the mac so that I can drag and drop some songs from the iTunes music folder right into the desktop of the pc and I can't get to the pc from the mac. I get an error that says the Alias is incorrect and the PC cannot be accessed.
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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/

Can you share a hard drive with the current airport extreme

Hey all!
I read that you can share USB drives with the new airport extreme. Can you do that with the current ones?
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B

Massi65, Welcome to the discussion area!
You really should start a new thread since your question is about the new square AEBS and the thread started with a question about the previous AEBS.
With either AEBS you could wirelessly gain access to a hard drive by one of these 3 methods:
Use a hard drive with wireless networking capabilities. The drive would connect to the wireless network like any other wireless client.
Use a hard drive with an Ethernet interface. Connect the drive to the AEBS's LAN port.
Connect a hard drive via FireWire or USB to another Mac and then share the drive from that Mac.
The new square AEBS offers a new possibility. You can connect a USB drive directly to the new AEBS and share it to devices connected to the AEBS's network.
What performance could I expect?
No one can answer this directly since no one has any of these devices to try.

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I have just about completed converting my life from PC to Mac. I am very excited. I have three Macs at home and they are all blue tooth, etc. I am easily able to share a printer hooked to one of them, but can not find a way to find, share or use an external hard drive attached to another. How would one begin looking for that device in order to read from or write to it?
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I have 3 Macs Airport networked at home; one G4 has an extrnal hard drive attached. If that hard drive is on, when I log into the particular G4 computer from my iMac Duo2Core (Go>Connect to Server) I get the option of logging into the G4 "Macintosh HD" or to the attached "External Hard Drive." The User Accounts at home do not have Admin privileges to the other computers, except my iMac Duo2Core which has admin privileges to the other 2. I did nothing special in setting up the network. I don't know if I can log into the external from the other G4 which does not have admin privileges to the G4 with the hard drive - never had occasion to test.
So, you might first try a set up like mine, (one admin computer for the whole network, and if you can't access the hard drive from non-admin computers, then (and if safe) give all computers admin privilegs across your network (System Preferences>Accounts - check the box that says "Allow user to administrate this computer" - for each user account). If you have young kids or folks who shouldn't have admin privileges, I'd think long and hard about doing it the second way though.
Hope this helps!
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Share external hard drive with windows

I have 2 pc's and a minimac. I want to share them on my home network. I have a new 3TB external hard drive that I want to store everything on. I want to write to it from all computers. I want some files to be shared such as photoshop illustrator and premeire pro from both pc's and mac. Lastly I want to use time machine. Am I asking too much? The wife refuses to learn mac at this time. Maybe in the future then I can turn the pc's into a boat anchor.

While it is possible to do all of these things on your external hard drive after going through a few steps, you will find that after some time - Time Machine will consume all of the free space on that hard drive.
My recommendation is that you use a seperate hard drive for Time Machine - and don't do anything else with that hard drive.
In the meantime, you could use the equipment you have available and establish a folder on your Mac Mini that will allow you to do all of the sharing that you need. Everything will then be archived on the external hard drive using Time Machine.
The following Mac 101 article will get you up and running in the file sharing arena:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1549?viewlocale=en_US
Enjoy!

Trouble burning Blu-ray image using share to Hard Drive or disc.

On version Final Cut Pro x 10.0.6, When I try to share to a DVD disc it tells me there is not enough space on the DVD disc , the project is 2:30 minutes, I put dual DVD .
After that just update on version Final Cut Pro x 10.0.8
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This is the error message I get. It's after FCP X is done with making the BMV folder and runs that disc burner app. There is about 850 gigs on the drive I want to save the disc image to, lots of space.
I thought maybe the drive the events was on was affecting this process, because it was full. I cleared out about 30 gigs and still got this message.
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Home share external hard drive

Can I home share with my external hard drive or just a computer?

I have 3 Macs Airport networked at home; one G4 has an extrnal hard drive attached. If that hard drive is on, when I log into the particular G4 computer from my iMac Duo2Core (Go>Connect to Server) I get the option of logging into the G4 "Macintosh HD" or to the attached "External Hard Drive." The User Accounts at home do not have Admin privileges to the other computers, except my iMac Duo2Core which has admin privileges to the other 2. I did nothing special in setting up the network. I don't know if I can log into the external from the other G4 which does not have admin privileges to the G4 with the hard drive - never had occasion to test.
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dwhewlings, Welcome to the discussion area!
Yes, you need to use Bonjour for Windows.

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Please advise.
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Hopefully, the hard drive was formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Open the Finder or Macintosh HD and look for the AirPort Extreme icon under the SHARED heading on the left. Click on the AirPort Extreme icon and folder representing your hard drive will appear to the right. Double click the folder to mount the drive on the desktop.
You may need to enter the account information for each user the first time that you connect using Connect As in the upper right hand corner of the window in the center of the screen.
If you do not see the AirPort Extreme icon, the USB port on the AirPort Extreme may not be supplying enough power for the drive....even if the drive has its own power supply. Try a powered USB hub to supply more power to the hard drive.

Share external hard drive between PowerBook (PPC) and MacBook (Intel)?

Hello.
I recently purchased an HP Portable USB 3.0/2.0 1TB external hard drive (http://j.mp/f9FP4M). I'm trying to figure out the best way to format it so that my girlfriend and I can both use it. Problem is, I have a PPC-based PowerBook G4, and she has an Intel-based MacBook. Hopeless?
If not, here is the ideal scenario:
--One partition that can boot Tiger (I still have the CD).
--A second partition that can boot Snow Leopard (just got it for my girlfriend).
--A third partition where my girlfriend can back up her MacBook using Time Machine.
--A fourth partition where I can back up my PowerBook using whatever means possible/necessary.
Can someone please suggest how I might do this? I would be very grateful for any assistance.
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