USB Drive accessed externally?

Is it possible to set up my usb drive hanging off my AEBSn as a read-only file server that can be accessed externally? Thanks.

Is it possible to set up my usb drive hanging off
my
AEBSn as a read-only file server that can be
accessed
externally? Thanks.
What do you mean by "accessed externally".
As far as the read-only, you should the able to use
standard OS X commands to set the properties of
"Ownership and Permission", if you have admin
privileges. Right click on the volume, select Get
Info, look at Ownership and permission, open details.
These are the usual read/write/execute of Owner,
Group and Others. The UNIX commands "chown", "chgrp
"and "chmod" will do most of the job (likely with
sudo prepended) that is needed.
You might double check the function of these commands with an AEBS shared disk. For me the files are all drwxrwxrwx and chown says that "Operation is not supportes".
The drives are formatted using HFS+ and have the permissions configured to be on, but the Airport Extreme Base Station disagrees with this.
-Pete

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