Airport Extreme-N external HDD problem

[jedivulcan]

I just got my Airport Extreme basestation in the mail today. I have three MyBook drives all Mac formatted connected to the Airport Extreme basestation via a Belkin USB hub. Everything works fine and connects. It even shows how much space has been used on the HDD (which is correct) but no files are shown? What gives?

 

[kolax]

What happens when you don't use the hub and plug one hard drive directly to your AEBS(n) ?

 

[hlemmon]

Have you, by any chance, set up your file sharing preferences inside the Airport Utility to secure your shared Airport Disk 'With Accounts'? When I tried this, the drive was mapped automatically on both my Macs and I could see how much space was used on the drive, just like you describe, but when I opened the mapped drive I wasn't able to see any files. I suspect this was because I was only able to see the contents of the newly created user folder that was added to my Airport Disk to match up with the user account I had specified in my Airport Utility. Have you tried changing your Airport Utility's file sharing configuration to secure shared disks 'With a Disk Password' or 'With Base Station Password'? That's what I had to do to enable me to see the contents of the other folders already existing on the drive.