Can anyone answer the following?
1) Can I just hook up an NTFS formatted USB2.0 drive to it?
2) To access it from a windows PC will it just show up as another "pc" on my network? Something like \\appleExtreme\ExternalHarddrive? Or do I have to install some special software to interface with it?
-If there is special software can I set it up to map my shared drive to a windows drive and then not have to worry about it?
Thanks!
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1) No =\ . Oh well.
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no?! (for 1)..that's weird...
well... it's supposed to ..
have u installed bonjour in ur win xp? the cd should come along with the base station...
here's wht's written in apple's website for the apple extreme base station wireless hard disk streaming -
shared hard drive:
* Mac with Mac OS X v10.4.8 or later
* PC with Windows XP (SP2) or Windows Vista; Bonjour for Windows included on AirPort Extreme CD
so im guessing you have to install bonjour and then it should work ...
tell me of the results... iv ordered the base station too .. and am banking on it to work for my external hard disk streaming as well...
best of luck -
just a link to help u with bonjour incase ur running into any difficulties
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/bonjourforwindows.html -
Thx, I decided to just continue to have a pc that shares my hard drive and printer as storage link and usb hard drives to routers still aren't performing to what I need.
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i have a question cashmonee... i have a 500 gig external ... and presenty its ntfs formatted and has 4 partitions ... now.. considering i format to hfs+ ... and create 4 similar partitions... and plug it to the airport extreme base station N ... will the base station be able to show all my partitions..?
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... thanks for the info! (helpful as always ... u r)
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cashmonee, do you have your PC hooked up to this HD that is formatted in HFS+? If so, how does it read and write to this disk? Do I need a special program to get it to do this?
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Ok so if you format to HFS. What would accessing it look like in Windows and MAC?
Any peformance issues? Can it reliably stream music and video? Can I convert to HFS or do I have to move my data off since I have to format it?
If I do this I would have to buy a new printer that can also share my scanner and that has a wifi card in it (it's no where near the router/cable rf connection).
I returned my DLink Dir-655, so I just might buy this one.
Thanks !
Apple Extreme Base Station N Question
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by polarlinks, Aug 18, 2007.