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Narco220
Jul 7, 2009, 11:02 AM
Just set up a new airport extreme but having problems with the share disk feature.

I have connected a hard disk to the usb slot on the Airport extreme that shows up in the airport utility but can't seem to find access the drive anywhere on my macbook,

Its not mounted on the desktop like it should be??


geoffreak
Jul 7, 2009, 11:17 AM
Network drives don't mount to the desktop normally.
Narco220
Jul 7, 2009, 11:18 AM
well how do i access the the hard disk connected to my airport extreme on my mac?
jbennardo
Jul 7, 2009, 11:20 AM
Your network disk should appear in your sidebar as a 'shared' device. Most likely titled whatever you named your network or 'airport extreme' or whatever. you can mount it that way.
rkdiddy
Jul 7, 2009, 11:20 AM
Finder > Select Router from Network > Select Name of Drive
Narco220
Jul 7, 2009, 01:42 PM
Finder > Select Router from Network > Select Name of Drive

The routers not showing in network, i take it the hard disk can be used over a wireless network?
geoffreak
Jul 7, 2009, 01:44 PM
It should automatically appear in the side bar in Finder as a network device.

Have you plugged the hard drive on your APE into your computer before? If you haven't, you need to do this and format it to HFS.
rkdiddy
Jul 7, 2009, 01:55 PM
A couple things:

- Make sure the share is setup in airport utility (I would apply a password).
- Restart your computer

As others have indicated it should show up in your finder. I'm going off memory, but I think there is a setting in utilities to show (shared drives) in finder. I may be wrong though.
Narco220
Jul 7, 2009, 01:56 PM
It should automatically appear in the side bar in Finder as a network device.

Have you plugged the hard drive on your APE into your computer before? If you haven't, you need to do this and format it to HFS.


No i only got the APE today and didn't realise i'd have to reformat the hard drive for it to show up?
geoffreak
Jul 7, 2009, 02:05 PM
Without formatting, a drive can't be used by the APE, so you'll need to format it to HFS.
Narco220
Jul 7, 2009, 02:14 PM
It was formated just in the wrong format, working now thanx

Is there also a way i can access the drive on my iphone?
geoffreak
Jul 7, 2009, 02:43 PM
Nope.