Airport Extreme
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- Kiko
Is anyone else using an Airport extreme with an external HD attached on Leopard? It wont mount my freaking HD and Apple are just ignoring the issue. I don't seem to be the only one.
This is the first Mac I bought and Im appauled at the level of service apple provide. Avoiding issues, going back on their workd and not mentioning anything of it.
Fucking pissed off!
- ribit0
I tried it a few months ago and it kept dropping the drive... I decided in the end I'm better of using a separate network drive on the network.. its more configurable, and can serve as Windows Sharing, Apples File Sharing and FTP all at once, easier for accessing from the internet, using non-standard ports etc. (If you turn on drive sharing in the Airport Extreme it takes over Port 548 for itself, which I didn't want)
- nicnichols0
Same thing here.. It would mount, but the directory was jumbled, the file names truncated, and transferring was a nightmare.. tried to reformat thru the airport, and that didn't work.. Apple didn't care, and now that they released an Airport with a 1tb drive, I see why...
- ribit0
I think Airport can actually do a lot of that stuff too, but there didn't seem to be much advantage over the separate NAS drive, plus I have multiple shared drives in my network, so was better to leave the Airport to just do routing and wireless...
- Kiko0
so how can I get a wireless network drive then? thats what I wanted
- ribit0
buy one? But why wireless? (Do you want to place it elsewhere in your house?)... you could connect to the Airport by ethernet...
- ribit0
I have both of these...Ethernet connected...
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- Kiko0
I have a mac book pro and an airport extreme, the lalcia 500GB is connected via USB to the airport extreme which is wirelesly connected to my comp. I can see the connection but cannot see the files on the drive. Any clues or ways to work around this? Aplle are useless in helping
- ribit0
Kiko.. Does the drive show up (ever) in the Airport Utility?
- seanhaus0
Time Machine.
As for getting around to fixing this shit for Leopard users, who knows. What a crock though.
- Kiko0
tell me about it
- freeskihp0
the only real fix is to buy apple's time capsule.
- Kiko0
yeah I know, but I have been cheated. I spent 300 on a piece of equipment that promised to do one thing and it doesn't do it. There are many people in the same boat but apple has not said a word and just ignored it. then to add insult to injury decided to bring out time capsule.
Cunts
- ribit0
If you have a spare Mac there, plug the drive into that and turn on file sharing.. you can then connect to it over local network (including wireless) or from the internet (if you have Port Forwarding set in your router to send port 548 to the IP address of that Mac).
- ninjasavant0
I can tell you that the transfer rate over the airport connection is SLOW. Hardly worth the trouble you seem to be going through. I have my external plugged directly into my desktop and just connect to the machine with my laptop to see the drive. More reliable from what I can tell.
- MediaPimp0
Hmm... I've had no trouble doing this at all... you do have Airport Disk Utility installed, right? Double check all your settings. I even have a disk being used as my Time Machine disk. Just connect it to you comp via usb, set it as Time Machine backup, then connect it to you AEBS, should work from there... did for me. My other disk is used strictly for iTunes media (Movies/Music/TV Shows).