Airport Extreme HDD Sharing

[Galo]

Vista?

I am still a bit confused.

Does anyone have experience in accessing the airport disk over wan from Windows. I have tried Vista a couple of times with nearly no success at all. The problem is that the AEBS does not support FTP protocol, only AFP, which is in turn not supported by Vista

Any guesses?

PS.: PCMacLan doesn't work under Vista.

 

[iMerlin]

I am still a bit confused.

Does anyone have experience in accessing the airport disk over wan from Windows. I have tried Vista a couple of times with nearly no success at all. The problem is that the AEBS does not support FTP protocol, only AFP, which is in turn not supported by Vista

Any guesses?

PS.: PCMacLan doesn't work under Vista.

I have 2 Vista machines at home that access my airdisk, 1 XP machine and one Mac. On the vista machines I needed to update the Airport Utility, as soon as the update went through the airdisk pop-up window came up right away.

About the AFP FTP thing, I could be wrong about this... But Im pretty sure that is what the AEBS is controlling. The router DOES support FTP and AFP, however the Mac supports AFP and Windows FTP. So the router is responsible for using the appropriate protocol to communicate with the particular system.

Someone correct me if Im wrong please.

 

[bohbot16]

The AEBS uses the SMB protocol (aka Windows File Sharing) when communicating with Windows computers.

 

[DoFoT9]

I have 2 Vista machines at home that access my airdisk, 1 XP machine and one Mac. On the vista machines I needed to update the Airport Utility, as soon as the update went through the airdisk pop-up window came up right away.

About the AFP FTP thing, I could be wrong about this... But Im pretty sure that is what the AEBS is controlling. The router DOES support FTP and AFP, however the Mac supports AFP and Windows FTP. So the router is responsible for using the appropriate protocol to communicate with the particular system.

Someone correct me if Im wrong please.

hmm i wouldnt say that your wrong, but maybe a little bit mis-informed.

the router doesnt support protocols in that way - it merely forwards those protocols onwards to wherever it is directed.

the ABES supports AFP for macs, and SMB for windows (if its there). i am not sure about FTP but i doubt it supports that.

The AEBS uses the SMB protocol (aka Windows File Sharing) when communicating with Windows computers.

yes indeed it does, meaning that when you go +K in the Finder, type this.

smb:\\IP-of-PC

smb:\\233.322.233.322

something like that.