Unable to access AirPort Disk

I have a 250GB WD Mybook hooked up via USB to my AEBS (Running 7.2.1).
I see the name of my base station in the Finder under SHARED but if I double click on it I simply see "Connecting..." at the top of the window and it goes nowhere. If I click on Connect As... I also get nothing. I have tried unplugging the drive and plugging it back in as well as restarting the base station. I can see the disk under Disks in the Airport utility so I'm not sure whats going on.
I bought this AEBS yesterday after being told in the store I should just be able to hook the disk up and go. This is INCREDIBLY frustrating

OK, I seem to finally have mine working- I basically put all of Garret's tips together at once:
1. Unplugged HD from AEBS, plugged HD directly into MacBook Pro.
2. Disk mounted and I copied some files to it.
3. Unplugged HD from MBP (I couldn't actually eject it, but that seems to be a separate Leopard issue not related to this, so I didn't worry about it.)
4. Double-checked Airport Utility settings- it was set to allow Guest access, and use base station password for connecting as a user.
5. Plugged HD back into AEBS.
6. Relaunched (Force Quit) Finder.
7. Voila! Finder now connects as Guest, and I also can connect as a user with the password. Either way, I can open files, etc. like normal.
It seems to still be working so far (knock on wood). I didn't try accessing the HD from my PC yet.
Thank you Garret for your help!

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I have a USB disk attached to my Airport Extreme, and use it as the target of my time machine backups from my mac book pro (connected via WiFi). For the most part things work fine. But if my macbook goes to sleep, after it wakes up it often (not always) gets the next time machine backup to fail with a message saying that it cannot access the disk. At first I found a brutal method of correcting it: I would disconnect from WiFi, go to my AE and power cycle it. After it came back the macbook never had any problem with the disk. A little more exploration indicated that Lion wasn't unmounting the disk properly. The following works (but sometimes requires a few iterations): I'll go to finder, eject the disk, and disconnect from Airport Extreme, and then go to the terminal and do
sudo diskutil unmountdisk disk1
(I first do a diskutil list to find out the right disk)
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Victor
PS. I understand that Apple says that they don't support time machine backup to network disks. But they do to a time capsule! It isn't really different.

I'm replying because, while I don't have a solution for you, I was experiencing the same issue at home not long ago. My solution has been to backup at the office (), but I'm about to switch back to running Time Machine at home. I think we'll be going through this together.
The difference in my situation is that my backup volume lives in a PowerMac G5, but I'm sure it's the same error.

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I have a new Airport Extreme with an attached USB disk. I am able to access the disk from my MAC, but when trying to access it from my windows computer I get Unknown user, incorrect password or login is disabled (error 1203). I have tried configuring the disk access with base station password, disk password and user accounts. Have also tried guest login.
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Hi I'm having a few issues connecting to the Airport disk on my Time Capsule.
Every time I start my computer The Airport Base Station Agent says:"The Airport Disk "Nasim's Time Capsule" became available. What do you want to do? And I click "Connect with Password" I enter the correct password and I receive a message that says: "Unknown user,incorrect password, or login is disabled. Please retype the login information or contact the disk's administrator (67)."
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Welcome to the discussions!
There are 2 passwords for the Time Capsule
One is a device password, which allows access to the TC. The other password is for your wireless network.
Might you be confusing these two? If you have not setup a device password, I believe that the default is "public".
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Does anyone know how I can access a network airport disk using OS 9?

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Unable to access Airport Extreme under Mac OS 10.6.7

Strange problem. I'm able to access the Internet, but can't access my Airport Extreme using Airport Utility under Mac OS 10.6.7.

Did you power cycle the entire network? It's always a good idea after any update.
Try this, if you haven't already done so:
Power everything down on the entire network, order is not important
Wait a moment and start the modem first and let it run a moment by itself
Start the next device connected to the modem the same way
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Unable to access airport utility

I have an Apple Extreme Base Station an I am no longer able to access the airport utility. the AEBS shows up in the utility but if I try to access the manual or assisted setup, it asks for a password and reverts back to the main screen.
If I try to hard reset with nothing but the power connected, nothing happens.
I've held the reset button in for 3 + minutes with no possitive result.
Before I bring it back to the store, I am asking if anyone has seen this issue before.
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Bruce,
Double clicking on the Icon pulled up a new window and the password was successful.
Thank you,
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I have tried to add the IP Address to my Norton software, I have even disabled Norton and that didn't help. I have tracked down the secret location of the NetBIOS and made sure it was enabled...but i get the same message.
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I did complete the setup for a new network, renaming the workgroup and making sure the other settings jived with all the TC settings I have thrashed through for nearly two weeks.
I hope this saves someone a little time and a lot of frustration. Thanks to all the other posts about this issue, it was good to know that other people face the same type of problem and there were a million ways around it.

How do I set up Airport Extreme Airport Disk as Central Media Storage when I have Directv, Windows and Mac needing access?

I have an always on PC in my living room, but I want the macbook pro to have the same media without taking up the space. iTunes Shared lacks the sorting features of having the library directly associated. What I want to do is setup a hard drive on my AEBS to house all my media.
I have a 120GB SSD on my PC in the LR. (with an 80GB drive I may put with it for extra space if needed)
A 250GB MBP
A 2TB drive (installed in a USB/eSATA enclosure)
A 1TB drive
A 500GB usb WD Passport
I use iTunes for Movies, Music, Podcasts
I use Picasa for Pictures
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I will store all my media on the 2TB, I will use the 1TB to backup all the media in a safe, and the 500GB I want to split for Time Machine and Windows backup. With all my media off those drives, 500GB should be enough space to keep backups for a while to restore programs and what not from.
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I want to house these large libraries on the AEBS Airport Disk and have the MBP and PC access the media. I ideally want iTunes to identify that as the iTunes Media Library for both the MBP and PC. I haven't found a good run down of how this would work.
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I will store all my media on the 2TB, I will use the 1TB to backup all the media in a safe, and the 500GB I want to split for Time Machine and Windows backup.
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The troubleshooting C17 is the specific article.
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
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So download the real utility. Run it instead of v6 toy version.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
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I have an external hard drive from my time capsule that stopped working on me. I am attempting to access the data with a hard drive reader on my MAC. I am able to see the drive in disk utility and under system info USB. But I am unable to access the data.

I have an external hard drive from my time capsule that stopped working on me. I am attempting to access the data with a hard drive reader on my MAC. I am able to see the drive in disk utility and under system info USB. But I am unable to access the data and it does not show on the desktop when connected.

Ok if disk utility was able to verify the drive I doubt there is any problem.. are you trying to open a TM backup??
You need to mount the sparsebundle then check the actual info inside the bundle.
Don't use disk warrior.. if the disk has verified then unless you deliberately deleted files there is nothing that is going to do.
Pondini has a lot of stuff about getting access to the sparsebundle.
http://pondini.org/TM/17.html
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Airport Disk access from the internet via Windows Vista

I have an Air Port Extreme base station and am sharing an external hard disk connected to it by the USB port. Local network connections work well with both mac's and windows machines. I am able to connect to the airport disk from the internet with my mac's fine. afp://ip address. How can I connect to this same air port disk from the internet with my PC's which run Vista? There must be a way? I have tried endlessly for many hours. any help would be appreciated.

This works fine from local network, but not from a remote location from the internet. Maybe my syntax is incorrect. My workgroup name in the Airport Utility is "Apple"
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bigraytk, Welcome to the discussion area!
Copied from Pages 58-9 of "Designing AirPort Networks Using AirPort Utility" (direct PDF download).
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Open AirPort Utility, located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder on a Mac, or in Start > All Programs > AirPort on a Windows computer.
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Can Not Access Airport Utility or USB Disk Over Wireless with WEP Enabled

I have an AirPort Extreme base station, with several Windows XP (SP2) machines connected to it. I am able to access the base station through the AirPort Utility (v5.1) using the machines that are connected to the base station via ethernet cables. However, when I attempt to configure the base station using a wireless connection on my Win XP laptop, it says that no base stations can be found. It will also not connect to the USB hard drive (no hards drives appear in the AirPort Disk Utility.) I AM able to browse the web via the wireless connection however. When I turn off WEP, the laptop is able to see the base station through the AirPort Utility, so I know it has something to do with the security, but I have not been able to narrow the problem down beyond that.
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