Can I connect a USB-powered hard drive to the Airport Extreme Base Station?

• Asked by George V from Williamsburg
• Jan 13, 2010
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External Hard drive attached to AirPort Extreme Base Station questions ?

Hi,

A few questions below


1) What is the file system that the External Hard drives mounted via USB to the AirPort Extreme Base Station uses ?

Is it HFS ? I need network attched storage for HFS format to store iphoto libraries across computers without have both turned on . I have NAS support now for NTFS and EXT3 but iphoto does not work on those partition types very well.

2) If I set up the hard drive mounted via USB to the AirPort Extreme Base Station to have multiple partitions will all of those portions be seen by my MAC computers? I.e if I set up a partition for time machine of a macbook, a partition for a time machine of a mac mini, and then a third for data sharing will all be mounted and seen by the macs.

3) Can you rsync a hard drive attached to the AirPort Extreme Base Station to another hard drive attached to the AirPort Extreme Base Station if using a external hub . . I.e create a backup copy of the HFS drive .

• Asked by Ryan A from West Townsend
• Dec 9, 2009
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Can I access a wired device from a wireless device connected to an AirPort Extreme base station?

I have a network printer and a windows file server wired to the ethernet ports but am unable to access them from my macbook pro which is connected wirelessly. Can't even ping even though the AirPort Utility DHCP Clients log indicates that they've been assigned IP addresses.

• Asked by Jeff C from Centreville
• Oct 30, 2011
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Is Airport Extreme Station the right solution to connect my USB Hard Drives to the network?

Home Setup: iMac (Snow Leopard), Vigor 2800 Wireless Router, 2 Seagate Ext Drives, Canon MP640 Wireless Printer.
The Seagate Drives are currently connected to the iMac with a USB cable but I would like them to be accessed wirelessly on the network.
Tried PogoPlug but it did not support Time Machine.
Is Airport Extreme Station the answer?

• Asked by Keith S from Kingswinford
• Aug 14, 2010
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Accessing a USB hard drive across a bridged/extended network using two airport extremes.

Here is my wifi network setup: One airport extreme (newest model) in the house connected to the internet by DSL modem. This airport is the one our network is set up on. Out in our detached office is a second airport extreme that connects wirelessly to the network and extends it as a roaming network. My iPod bounces back and forth between the two airports perfectly as I walk between home and office. Eventually (and soon) I plan to buy a MacBook to replace an aging PC desktop for work.

My question: While using the MacBook in the house accessing the internet through the home Airport, will I be able to access a USB hard drive connected to the Airport in the office?

Sorry this is so wordy, but I want to make sure i get this right at each step. Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated.

Paul.

• Asked by Paul B from Lexington
• May 20, 2011
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Is it possible to connect a 1TB 'network' hard drive via ethernet cable to my airport extreme base station?

I have bought a network drive case and a 1TB hard drive in it. Connected via ethernet cable to my airport extreme base station. It doesn't show up. And I see only references on USB drives in the knowledge base.

Is it even possible to connect a network drive like this? Or did I forget something technical, like formatting the hard drive or assigning an IP or something?

Rik

• Asked by H.a.d. H
• Dec 2, 2010
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Can i Stream movies stored on a hard drive connected to airport extreme base station on either my iPad or apple tv (both latest versions)

• Asked by Trevor M from Ottawa
• Jul 5, 2012
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How do you hard drive share on a pc using an airport extreme

I've been looking to buy a airport extreme, but I only have pc's. I already have an airport express an I love it I never have to worry about it (it just works). I was confused though how the hard drive sharing works on a pc and how when connected with mobile me.

• Asked by Caden S from Soda Springs
• Aug 9, 2010
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can i put music on a hard drive plugged into the airport extreme base station and listen to music ON MY MAC from the hard drive?

i dont want the music files actually ON MY MAC,, can i put them on my external hard drive that is plugged into the extreme base station and "map" to them from my itunes?

im looking to use a 500gb laptop external hard drive that is powered through the usb cable,, and all 4 of my family members want to "map" to all that music

and if laptops break down or get stolen, the music collection still remains flawless

thanks, jay

• Asked by Jason E from Oak Creek
• Mar 29, 2010
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Use Airport Extreme as an access point only

I'm pretty sure this is possible but since Apple is using a different type of setup software for this product than I'm used to it would be helpful to get some pointers on how to do this. I assume I need to turn off DHCP and perhaps give the unit a fixed IP address. My existing network is fully configured with internet access etc and I just need to add the APE. I would connect the base to the existing network using one of the ports and not the WAN port. From this point will the Apple configuration software running on a Windows 7 PC be able to see the unit? Considering the existing network will be running as address like 192.168.2.xxx I'm concerned about the ability to see the unit. Once I can connect then configuration should be fairly simple. It is the intial connection I'm concerned about.

• Asked by Dale G from Houston
• Nov 13, 2011
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