Will airport extreme mount a hard drive on my network?

[David Franke]

A powerbook is my only Mac. I have a lot of songs on an external firewire/USB hard drive. My question: can I plug the external hard drive into an Airport Extreme peripheral and have my powerbook "find" the external hard drive that way? If it does, I can let the songs reside there and control the music from my PB. If it doesn't, I'm back to the drawing board.

Thanks.

David Franke
Syracuse, NY

 

[Sweetfeld28]

I don't think that this is possible, in that you would need a computer to have the external hard drive to mount. I could be wrong, but i think you would need another computer for this purpose. If you did you could just use itunes to share your music using the Airport Express.

It would be intresting to see if you could do actually get this to work, Good Luck though.

 

[superbovine]

it only for printers, keyspan express, and a usb hub.

 

[R.Youden]

it only for printers, keyspan express, and a usb hub.

If it is for a USB hub, what can you connect to the hub? Appart from the printer and keyspan?

 

[FocusAndEarnIt]

Not possible, and transfer speeds would be pretty slow.

 

[superbovine]

If it is for a USB hub, what can you connect to the hub? Appart from the printer and keyspan?

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/156192/

 

[mkrishnan]

If you put the drive in a Network Attached Storage (NAS) enclosure, then you could do it. But it would connect to the network via ethernet or 802.11... not USB or FW.