Will Bonjour allow Vista to access a USB HD connected to a Timecapsule

[Capt Crunch]

So I have a time capsule now and it works fantastic on both my mac and my Vista machine as a NAS. However I'm worried about running out of space and would like to add a USB drive to the Timecapsule. Will bonjour allow Vista to see and access the mac-formatted USB drive in the same way that it can see the Timecapsule drive?

If not, what needs to be done?

 

[Capt Crunch]

bump!

 

[Mindflux]

You just need to load the Airport Disk utility on the Vista machine. It's not related to Bonjour.

 

[Capt Crunch]

You just need to load the Airport Disk utility on the Vista machine. It's not related to Bonjour.

What format does the external HD have to be in?

 

[Mindflux]

Any format, since it's a network drive SMB/AFP can handle any format.

 

[Bhowell]

The format is only relevant if you want to maintain the USB Drives functionality with direct computer connections.

Formats for Compatibility:
Mac: HFS or HFS+
Mac and PC: FAT32
Time Capsule: HFS, HFS+, or FAT32

One issue to note is that FAT32 has limitations on its drive size which have to be bypassed with either formatting from a Mac or special utilities designed for Windows.

All this is from the experience I had attaching a 500GB USB drive to my AEBS and wanting to retain compatibility with Windows for a direct connection.