Sharing an Airport disk over any network?

How can I access my Airport disk over any network and not just my local network? Like if I'm in Starbucks and I want access to my Airport disk at home.

Not a simple matter:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=372603

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How can I make sure that there is absolutely NO sharing of my library over any network (including whatever wifi I connect to) ?

- I don't want my library to ever be available to anybody.
- I want to be sure it doesn't automatically switch back to being available after some update or whatever
- I would like to know a few things about how often my library was available in the past, considering that I've only just figured out that it was.
Specifically, I'd like to know - was it available to other people connecting through the same wifi even when I had the application closed?
Thank you, potential question answerers.

It would help if you provided more information. I add hundreds of files to my library each year with 12+ years iTunes use. One duplicate per year = something you are doing is causing this. Realize if you drag a file from your anywhere on your computer except the iTunes media folder to iTunes, iTunes puts a copy of the file into the correct media library folder and adds the track to the library file database you see in the iTunes window. If you drag the file to iTunes again it will do it all again = duplicate.

Airport not detecting any Networks

I was working fine yesterday with my macbook late 2008 aluminum unibody. Then I left the laptop for a while to have some lunch. When I went back to my mac it hanged so I forced quit some applications then did a hard shutdown. After which my Airport cannot find any network. I did a hardware test... all is okay (does this also test the airport card?). I also tried to manually input the SSID and the WEP Password (13 Characters) where I get an error of Connection timed out.
Can anybody help me?

Open /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utilities
Once in Disk Utilities select your drive in the left window. Then from the right window select First Aid (First Aid will be selected by default).
Verify Disk:
In the "First Aid" window towards the bottom, select Verify Disk. If "Verify" comes back reporting errors, then post back here as we will have to give you further instructions on booting from your install disk.
Also at the bottom note the S.M.A.R.T status, it should read "Verified"
Repair Permissions:
In the "First Aid" window towards the bottom select "Repair Disk Permissions"

AirPort Disk over WAN

I'm having trouble connecting to my AirPort disk over WAN. I manage to connect and it comes up with a list of volumes to mount but it doesn't show any.

Disk was formatted as FAT32, worked fine when I reformatted as MAC

I am sharing my macbook pro over a network with windows 7, however through windows 7 I can access my whole computer instead of just the shared files!

I am sharing my macbook pro over a network with windows 7, however through windows 7 I can access my whole computer instead of just the shared files!

Hi Sig,
The issue is that i only want the shared folders to be accessed through windows 7.
Whats the point otherwise to have shared folders?
thanks..

Backing up with Time Machine via "Personal File Sharing" and Airport Disk

I've been using Time Machine on my own Mac at home and want to use it to backup other Macs in my house as well. Right now I'm just backing up over FireWire, but plugging my disk into each of the other Macs one at a time doesn't seem to make much sense.
Besides going out and buying a Time Capsule, Leopard Server, or Xsan, what are my options for backing up multiple Macs to one disk? I've read that using an Airport disk is somewhat risky because of some "premature file transfer confirmation." Has anyone ever used Time Machine w/ Airport Disk and had problems?
I've also noticed that you can back up to shared drives, like if I share my current FireWire disk so people can back up to it, but wouldn't that require for people to connect to the host Mac manually via Finder? And wouldn't that in turn defeat the purpose of automatic scheduled backups?
Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.

the only supported option besides Time Capsule is to back up to a hard drive directly connected to a mac running leopard on the same local network. as you mention it would indeed require that this drive be mounted first. you can automate mounting this drive on login and simply keep it mounted at all times. to do that mount the drive of the host Mac on a remote mac and while it's mounted there add it to the login items in system preferences->accounts.
You can also use drives directly attached to an airport extreme base station. that works in the same way as backups to a Time capsule.
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One Answer To Sharing Stubborn/Naff Printers Over A Network

Dear all,
I posted a previous question concerning sharing a Canon i320 printer and got a swift if disappointing answer. Whilst the answer was entirely correct in that it was a fault with Canon's driver and the lack of a CUPS version, I have found an alternative to giving my perfectly working i320 printer a Viking Funeral which may also answer several other peoples problems. Just as well because it probably wouldn't float anyway.
It may not be news to some but there is an application for OS X called PrintFab - www.printfab.net which seems to provide CUPS drivers for most printers, including the i320. This allows you to share your disappointingly naff printer over a network just like one of those proper printers you should have bought in the first place.
I've just achieved a successful printout using the evaluation version of this software. Sadly there's no such thing as a free lunch. This one costs 49 euros in it's basic form but in these ecologically challenged times, it does allow to continue using your current printer. It is presumably cheaper than Airport Extreme which was suggested as an alternative. It did take a while to print so I'm unsure about performance in that area. I guess with an evaluation version, you can check that yourselves.
Hope this helps.

Hi Brie,
I'm not sure exactly what are the 6 steps exactly.... but I did all the check box in ip preferences of both computer.
I found this in the iP help menu
To share your photos on a network:
1-Choose iPhoto > Preferences.
2-Click Sharing at the top of the Preferences window.
3-Select the "Share my photos" checkbox, and then choose your entire library or only the albums, slideshows, or books you want to share.
4-Type a name for your shared items in the "Shared name" field, and a password if desired.
The shared name you enter appears in the iPhoto Source list on computers set up to look for shared photos on your network. If you select "Require password," users will need to enter that password before they can see your shared photos.
DONE ( did not use password)
To look for shared photos:
1-Choose iPhoto > Preferences.
2-Click Sharing at the top of the Preferences window.
3-Select the "Look for shared photos" checkbox.
DONE
Not sure what other step there are to do if any!
michel
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Share an AirPort Disk over WAN

Hi guys,
While browsing a blog I noticed that some people are confused with the process on setting up an AirPort disk for use over the internet using Wide Area Bonjour or Wide Are Network. I ended up throwing together a little PDF that will guide you through this process. I have included screenshots and kept the descriptions short and simple. I thought it might be a good idea to head here and share it with the Apple Discussions users as well. If anyone wants to add on to the guide feel free. You can download the file here http://www.mediafire.com/?8xoi19josgn
-Jake

Hi!
I followed your directions but I keep getting these errors in my log file:
Oct 18 00:05:54 Severity:3 Wide-Area Bonjour error for "CRUICKSHANK.adisk.tcp.wcgwave.ca." (-65537).
Oct 18 00:05:54 Severity:3 Wide-Area Bonjour error for "CRUICKSHANK.afpovertcp.tcp.wcgwave.ca." (-65537).
Oct 18 00:05:54 Severity:3 Wide-Area Bonjour error for "CRUICKSHANK.smb.tcp.wcgwave.ca." (-65537).
Have any ideas as to why this might be occurring?
Thanks,
Jason

Airport Not Seeing Any Networks

*After waking the PowerBook from overnight Sleep mode this morning, my Airport isn't working. No reception of mine or any other WiFi networks in my building (there are typically 4 or 5 of my neighbors' wireless networks displayed when I check using Internet Connection). After numerous re-starts, forced re-starts, re-boots and Disk Utility passes, nothing. I re-set my Airport Express, nothing. I re-seated my internal Airport card and checked the antenna connector, still nothing. Do Airport cards eventually just quit working? Anyone here have any other ideas or suggestions? Thanks, Jd*
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*Back from the Apple Store and a meeting with a very competent genius. The card works and I was able to access the Internet there. Returned home and I was very optimistic and ready to get back to normal. I restarted the computer and had the same problem, not seeing ANY WiFi networks, including my Airport Express or any of my neighbors' networks. I took the computer to another building in my complex and was able to join onto one of the WiFi networks there, so that tells me that there may be outside influences at work here. I have just re-installed OSX to make a clean start to see if that would make a difference, again nothing. My next move is to check with one of my neighbors to see if they are having the same problem. Otherwise, it's very strange and I'm stumped. I'm open to any other ideas and suggestions, if anyone here has any. Thanks, JD*

Airport Disk in WDS network - different access speeds

I have set up my new Airport Extreme with an attached hard drive as an Airport Disk. This Extreme base station works as a WDS remote. There is another WDS remote in the network (an Airport Express) in the room next door. It seems that when my MacBook Pro is a client of the Airport Express station (as seen in the "Advanced - Wireless Clients" tab of the Airport Utility for the Airport Express) my upload and download speeds to the Airport Disk are very much slower (200 or 300 KB/s) than when the computer is a client of the Airport Extreme station (2 to 4 MB/s).
My question: how can I make sure that my computer connects (i.e. is a client of) preferentially with the Airport Extreme and not the Airport Express station so that I can enjoy the speedier connection to the Airport Disk?
Would it help to set the Express as a WDS remote and the Extreme as a WDS relay?
Thanks!

My question: how can I make sure that my computer connects (i.e. is a client of) preferentially with the Airport Extreme and not the Airport Express station so that I can enjoy the speedier connection to the Airport Disk?
Since all of your base stations are part of the same network, there is no way to force your Mac to connect to one specific base stations. The Mac is going to connect to the base station which it believes offers the "best" connection.

Share Airport Disk over WAN via iCloud

Does anyone have info on how 7.6.1 allows WAN access via an iCloud account? Supposedly that was a new feature and I can't find anything about it.
Sorry for everyone's frustrations. My 7.6.1 update went fine on two Extremes & an Express. 7.5.2 was the one that gave me fits last year.

I understand now about the IP address but every address that makes a direct connection to the Internet must be unique so I don't understand how you and your neighbour can have the same IP address. You may be on the same subnet, first three groups of number in IP the same, but it is impossible to have the exact same address otherwise the Internet would be broken for both of you. Are you sure the last group of numbers is not different? In the following sequence the number represented by DDD should be different between you and your neighbour.
AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD <-- DDD must be different
Anyway, it appears that things are mostly working. If you can access the Airport base station to configure it remotely then you should also be able to access the hard drive remotely.
When you are at a remote location does the name of your Airport Base station stay on the Finder sidebar? If it does what happens when you click on it to select it? If your AirPort disks are protected by a password it should ask you for your password and then the disk should become available.

Choosing Sharing of Airport Disk by Airport PW/Disk PW/Account

I have a USB disk connected to my Airport Extreme Dual Band. I use it to share files and for TM. All is well.
Using the Airport Utility > Manual Setup > Disks > File Sharing, I have With Airport Extreme Password selected. There are two other options, With a Disk Password and With Accounts.
Why would one choose one of these options over the other? Is one more secure than the others? Will all of them work w/TM?

It would seem logical that you could use the accounts to assign permissions on different files.
But I am not having any luck with that. No matter how I access the files on this disk, they are always read/write for everyone. If I attempt to change the owner (to a name that is in the shared accounts) it always fails.
It does turn out that using 'accounts' that a directory at the top level is created with the <username> account and that directory is 700 (meaning only the user can log in to it with his special password).
But it appears that directory is created on the first partition. All users would be created on the first partition.
Also when you use the user password to access the shared disk, it will mount all partitions, whether there is a user account or not.
Anyway, user accounts don't work with partitions for sure.
And if you have more than one disk, it appears that you cannot restrict access to the separately.

Sharing library between computer over a network

Hi,
I'm trying to share 2 different ip libraries on 2 different computers. But one has ip4 and the other one has ip6. Do both iPhoto have to be of the same level (ip4 vs ip6) to be able to share?
Reason is that I see the icon of the other library on each iphoto, but on the ip6 on my laptop, (trying to access my G5 with ip4,) i see the icon of the G5 ip4 and as soon as I click on it, it disapear and I get a message that there was an error with sharing library.
On the other way around, when I try to access the ip6 laptop from the ip4 G5, I click on it and the icon remains in the album sections, and it get de-selected automatically, and it reverts to the root ip library being selected. The Macbook/laptop icon remains in the album column, but cannot remain selected. I get NO sharing error on this one.
Apple website and help menu claim that to share you only need 10.2.6 and iP4 and above!
Please advise!
michel

Hi Brie,
I'm not sure exactly what are the 6 steps exactly.... but I did all the check box in ip preferences of both computer.
I found this in the iP help menu
To share your photos on a network:
1-Choose iPhoto > Preferences.
2-Click Sharing at the top of the Preferences window.
3-Select the "Share my photos" checkbox, and then choose your entire library or only the albums, slideshows, or books you want to share.
4-Type a name for your shared items in the "Shared name" field, and a password if desired.
The shared name you enter appears in the iPhoto Source list on computers set up to look for shared photos on your network. If you select "Require password," users will need to enter that password before they can see your shared photos.
DONE ( did not use password)
To look for shared photos:
1-Choose iPhoto > Preferences.
2-Click Sharing at the top of the Preferences window.
3-Select the "Look for shared photos" checkbox.
DONE
Not sure what other step there are to do if any!
michel
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Can't see shared Airport USB Drive on Network

I have a AirPort Extreme (5th Generation) with a USB drive attached. I am using OS 10.9.2 on my desktop and laptop. I can see the drive on my desktop Mac which has a ethernet connection to the Airport, but my laptop can't see the shared drive. I used Airport Utility (under "Disk" Tab) to Enable file sharing and share disks over WAN. I have set the "Secure Shared Disks" to "With a disk Password." On the laptop, I have set Finder preferences to see "External disks."
However, the disk does not show up on the Finder sidebar under "Devices" or "Shared."
Any suggestions on how I can make this "Shared Drive" visible?
Thanks,
Dave

Also make sure that Finder Preferences is set to show Connected Servers on the desktop.
Restart the entire network as well by powering everything off, waiting a minute, then starting the modem first, followed by the next device connected to the modem, etc until everything is powered back up.

How to share an airport connected USB Disk over internet

Hi all,
I'm trying to get my AEBS connected USB Disk to be accessible over the internet, so I can access it when I'm not at home.
In Airport Utility I checked both 'Share Disks over WAN' and 'Share Disks over the internet using Bonjour'.
I've also set a few accounts who can connect to it (instead of being guests).
But what's next?
I can connect to the disk in Finder by selecting the menu-option 'Connect to server' and typing in 'afp://ip-address' (where IP-address is for the AEBS) as long as I'm in my home network, but I tried the same at my work but that doesn't work.
Do I have to configure the AEBS in some other way to make this possible?
Any help, advice would be appreciated.

Using the AirPort Utility, you will need to both enable File Sharing and configure the AirPort for Port Mapping. (Note: It is assumed that your 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBSn) is the only Internet router in your current network configuration. That is, it is connected directly to a broadband Internet modem, and not another router upstream of it.)
The following are the basic steps to configure an AirPort Disk to be accessed from the Internet:
Start the AirPort Utility > Select the AEBSn, and then, note the IP address shown.
Select Manual Setup.
Verify that Connection Sharing = Share a public IP address is selected on the Internet > Internet Connection tab.
Select Disks, and then, select File Sharing.
Verify that both the "Enable file sharing" and "Share disks over WAN" options are enabled.
Verify that Secure Shared Disks = With a disk password. (Recommended)
Verify that AirPort Disks Guest Access = Not allowed. (Recommended)
Select Advanced, and then, select the Port Mapping tab.
Click the plus sign to add a new port mapping.
For Service, select the "Personal File Sharing" option. (Note: This option would only allow Mac clients to access the AirPort Disks. If you want both Macs and PCs to connect, you would need to leave this field at its default value and enter the appropriate SMB ports to the mix of ports to be opened.)
In the Public UDP Port(s) and Public TCP Port(s) boxes, type in a 4-digit port number (e.g., 8888) that you choose. In the Private IP Address box, type the internal IP address of your AEBSn that you wrote down in step 1. In the Private UDP Port(s) and Private TCP Port(s) boxes, type 548. Click Continue.
In the Description box, type a descriptive name like "AirPort Disk File Sharing," and then, click Done.
Click on Update.
To connect to the shared AirPort Disk from a remote location using a Mac:
From the Finder > Go > Connect to Server.
Enter the DynDNS-provided Domain Name or Pubic (WAN-side) IP address of the AEBSn, followed by a colon and the Public port number that you choose in step 11 of the previous procedure. For example: afp://www.mydyndnsdomain.com:8888 or afp://123.456.789.123:8888
Click Connect.
You should be prompted for your user name and password. The user name can be anything you like; the password should be the Disk password for the AEBSn that you created in step 6 previously.
Click Connect.

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