How do I connect wirelessly to my external harddrive?
May 26, 2010 3:44 AM Subscribe
Help me connect wirelessly to my external hard drive!
We have a 1TB external usb hard drive and an airport base station wireless router (with a usb slot in the back). I'd like for our two laptops- a PC laptop running Vista and an Airbook running OSX- to be able to connect to it without physically plugging it in to the laptops themselves. What do I need to do to make this happen?
We have a 1TB external usb hard drive and an airport base station wireless router (with a usb slot in the back). I'd like for our two laptops- a PC laptop running Vista and an Airbook running OSX- to be able to connect to it without physically plugging it in to the laptops themselves. What do I need to do to make this happen?
Apparently I hit submit to early. I am proved wrong here. So if you have the extreme you are good to go. Looks pretty self explanatory in the article.
posted by wile e at 4:30 AM on May 26, 2010 [1 favorite]
posted by wile e at 4:30 AM on May 26, 2010 [1 favorite]
Best answer: I don't really understand the question. Plug the drive into the Airport and run the Airport Configuration Utility. Follow the instructions.
posted by Mwongozi at 4:54 AM on May 26, 2010
posted by Mwongozi at 4:54 AM on May 26, 2010
Response by poster: The hard drive is plugged into the base station via usb. I can see the drive in Airport on my PC; my friend can see it in hers on her mac, too. But neither of us can actually access it at all- it doesn't show up anywhere on her desktop; I can see it in network, but it tells me it's not accessible, i might not have permission and that it's not ready.
I know this should be just about as simple as plugging a usb drive straight into my computer.. sorry if it seems like too basic of a question... but argh! what's going wrong?!
posted by Philby at 6:30 AM on May 26, 2010
I know this should be just about as simple as plugging a usb drive straight into my computer.. sorry if it seems like too basic of a question... but argh! what's going wrong?!
posted by Philby at 6:30 AM on May 26, 2010
Best answer: I know this should be just about as simple as plugging a usb drive straight into my computer.. sorry if it seems like too basic of a question... but argh! what's going wrong?!
Have you rebooted your systems since you hooked the USB drive up to the base station? When you hot-swap networked peripherals, your system often needs to reboot to get full access to them.
posted by Hiker at 6:51 AM on May 26, 2010 [1 favorite]
Have you rebooted your systems since you hooked the USB drive up to the base station? When you hot-swap networked peripherals, your system often needs to reboot to get full access to them.
posted by Hiker at 6:51 AM on May 26, 2010 [1 favorite]
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posted by wile e at 4:28 AM on May 26, 2010