Can I access my USB Drive off my Airport Extreme from the Internet?

[Sinsinnati]

I was under the impression that I could do this. I am trying to access my hard drive connected to the Airport Extreme. I configured it for Bonjour & SMB. I have the IP address of the airport extreme.

Shouldn't it be:

Bonjour
afp://ip_of_airport_extreme/bonjour_name

or

Windows Share
smb://ip_of_airport_extreme/workgroup_name

Am I missing a step or is this not possible?

 

[Ice-Cube]

I think leopard has this feature.

 

[Sinsinnati]

I believe you can do this now with the new 802.11n Airport Extreme. Has anyone been successful doing so?

 

[edonetampa]

From the internet....

You should have to get the IP address coming in from your ISP, not the 192.168... that the router gives you. I know my ISP changes the IP address about every 30 days or so to keep people from hosting sites on their own machines without paying for a static IP address.

You should be able to connect locally on the network as it is, but I believe you need your actual IP address for the real world.

 

[Sinsinnati]

I have the external IP address and that is what I was trying to use. Is there something I need to configure on the Airport Extreme? I couldn't ping the Airport Extreme or connect to it via the "afp" and "smb" protocols.

 

[edonetampa]

Found this from an earlier post. Maybe it will help....

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/300073/

 

[jeremy.king]

Did you check the “Share disks over Ethernet WAN port” checkbox in Airport Utility?

 

[Sinsinnati]

Did you check the “Share disks over Ethernet WAN port” checkbox in Airport Utility?

Yes, do I also need to do anything with Port Mapping?