Unable to Access External Wireless Drive

I recently had to swap the harddisk on my macbook and re-install all my software. As a result, I can no longer access my Iomega Minimax Drive that I have connected to my Fritzbox Router. I can access the external drive via the desktop PC, but the Macbook cannot find or recognize the drive. The Macbook is connected, however, and I have Internet access.
Any suggestions or assistance would be much appreciated.

Ah, no. That certainly sounds like the problem though. A friend of mine set it up for me originally and I'm not too familiar with networking. How do I go about adding permission? On the router directly?
Thanks.

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This could be a smart design inside XP. FAT32 can't store file ownership so maybe it refuses to share a FAT format drve? From a security point of view this would be the right thing to do. On the other hand it could be a bug in XP that just by dumb lock looks like it is doing the right thing.
Either way it sounds like you have a good workaround: put the drive on the Mac and let the Mac share the drive. It's best if the drive is reformatted for the Mac so that user ownership and permissons can be used.
Don't worry one computer can't know how another's dive is formatted. The network hides this. All my shared files are on EXT3 formatted drives on a Linux server. All the clients see is "SBM".

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I just upgraded my macbook air to Yosemite and got a new airport extreme. I've got a hard drive with my music files attached to the extreme and have been trying to use that to play music off of in itunes (so accessing the music in my library wirelessly). The system works most of the time, but occasionally my computer will be unable to access the music drive. If I play a song, I'll get a "could not find the original file" error and then if I go to the finder, under shared, instead of the name of my extreme I just see "all", if I click on that, I can see the shared drive but if I try to open it in the finder I get an "error code 0." Sometimes the this clears up on its own, other times, I have to restart or unplug and plug back in the drive. It's not a drive problem; the drive works fine when plugged directly into my computer.
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If the Airport Extreme is plugged into a pure modem then it must be in router mode.. by default it will have IP 10.0.1.1
If the Airport is plugged into a modem router it should be in bridge mode and will likely have IP like 192.168.x.x (although 10.x.x.x is also possible).
You will know which is which because the LAN and WAN IP is the same in bridge. Or it will show just LAN.. in router mode it must show both WAN and LAN IP which are different.
If the Airport is bridged.. let me suggest you try this setup.. it is alternative to bridge.. a bit tricky to setup but might help you get it working albeit you need to understand the problem is Yosemite.
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Hi
Trying to solve a problem for my neighbour. They have a MacBook Air with a very full hard drive. Much of that space is taken up by images. They are currently using iPhoto to view these. One obvious solution is to move the images to an external drive by moving the iPhoto Library. However, It would be great if they could always have access to the images even when in other parts of the house i.e. a wired hard drive is not really a solution. One suggestion I made to them was to try a TimeCapsule, then attach a USB hard drive to it, that would turn the USB hard drive into an external wireless drive. My concern is - that this connection will be to slow to be useable - and also possibly risks corruption if the network is flakey. Not good when working with a database.
Another solution would be to use Lightroom 5 with Smart Previews. As a photographer, this is the route I would use - but LR is not as friendly for normal folk as iPhoto is. They don't want advanced image editing, they want image viewing mainly - and need to be able to do that remotely via wireless ideally. -
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Over the wireless connection it will be viewing thumbnails first, then on demand Previews. But there is no control over the size or quality of the Previews - you'll need Aperture for that sort of control. As I say, speed will depend on many other factors and frankly, trial and error is the only way to know.
I've no idea who much editing "normal people" do, but the fact is any editing is not advised. End of. So, yes, they would need to have a wired connection for importing.
Another thought: How big is the Library? SD cards and Flash Drives come in very large sizes and can be reformatted to hold a Library.
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For your iPad, you will need an app, like FileBrowser, to access the external drive.
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Have you tried doing a search for the external drive software (drivers)? If not, click the round (blue or gray) icon top right of your screen, that is Spotlight. In the drop down search field type in the name of the software. Hopefully it will return the names of the files and where they are. If you locate the Maxtor files, drag them to the Trash.
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Does the drive show up if you open Disk Utiltiy and have it scan for devices?
Do you have other Firewire devices attached? Does the Firewire bus show up under System Profiler? If your eMachas ever suffered a power glitch, it's possible the Firewire bus is latched up and not responding. Reset the Firewire bus triple fuses by removing all peripherals other than the keyboard and mouse, then removing the power cord from the side of the eMac (to remove the trickle current drawn by modern electronics even when nominally off) and waiting 15+ minutes. Then reattach the power cord restart. Check Apple’s System Profiler and confirm that the Firewire bus is recognized. Reattach peripherals one at a time, checking System Profiler after each to confirm the addition is recognized.
Also, be aware those drives come out of the box formatted as NTFS for use on Windows PCs; while Mac OS X can read NTFS volumes, it can't write to them. To use the drive with both computers, you'd need to format as FAT32 (which can be tricky with Windows volumes over 2 GB), or format as Mac HFS+ / OS Extended and purchase MacDrive for use on the PC.
If you need to reformat the drive, I'd suggest partitioning it into Mac and Windows partitions as well as one or more shared data partitions, and make the Mac partition the first partition. You can then clone the eMac HD to the external using SuperDuper! or CarbonCopyCloner, and have a bootable external HD for emergencies.

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Good evening everyone, thanks in advance for your response. I tried looking all over for an answer to my question so I wouldn't have to bother you, but was unable to find anything sufficient. I am running 10.6.8 and I've been using an external hard drive to store some of my work files. Usually, whenever I plug it in to the USB there is a message that asks something to the effect of whether I want to use it as a Mac External HD. I always click "decide later." Yesterday, I was trying to set up Time Machine and with just a few clicks (I don't remember exactly what I clicked), I am now unable to see the files in my External HD. When I try to open it, there is just a perpetual spinning grey circle at the bottom right of the finder window. I've tried looking around "Disk Utility" for an answer but don't know what to do now. I don't think the hard drive was reformatted / the files were deleted, because when I click info there is still the same amount of GB used as before. Does anyone know how I can revert back to the old setting or otherwise retrieve my files?
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Hi Japamac, good to speak with you again. You have helped me in the past.
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