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Berger_4_ · 09-28-2009, 03:54 PM

God, I really feel kinda bad for making people troubleshoot my stuff for me. Here's the deal today. Bought an AirPort Extreme, and I hooked my external hard drive up to it so I can access my music through my computer anywhere in the house. Damn computer won't find the hard drive though. So what's the effing deal? Did I set up the base station wrong or what?

MarchHare · 09-28-2009, 03:59 PM

That's what you get for buying Apple. You should have just bought a Linksys product instead. They just work.

silentsim · 09-28-2009, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by MarchHare

That's what you get for buying Apple. You should have just bought a Linksys product instead. They just work.

To set up iDisk open Airport Utility and go to the disc section, and it should be listed. What is the drive formatted as? Hook it up to your computer, if Finder recognizes it it should work perfectly with AirDisk.

HotHotHeat · 09-28-2009, 04:38 PM

You probably want to leave it on a computer compared to an XHD. The new iTunes has home sharing...I'd go that route and leave the XHD for a Time Machine backup. If you need to order a larger HD, use OWC.

Here's the website:
http://www.macsales.com/

sclitheroe · 09-28-2009, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by silentsim

To set up iDisk open Airport Utility and go to the disc section, and it should be listed. What is the drive formatted as? Hook it up to your computer, if Finder recognizes it it should work perfectly with AirDisk.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the disks aren't shared by default, you have to turn on sharing and set either a password or user accounts (or guest access)

FAT32 and HFS+ are the only formats its gonna work with, and of the two, I'd trust HFS+ more, because its journaled and should be resistant to corruption if the AEBS looses power or whatever

sclitheroe · 09-28-2009, 05:53 PM

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Originally Posted by MarchHare

That's what you get for buying Apple. You should have just bought a Linksys product instead. They just work.

For 8 to 12 months at a time

Berger_4_ · 09-28-2009, 05:53 PM

I don't really wanna leave all my music on my laptop though being as I've got what seems to be a million songs that would take up a piss ton of room on my internal drive, which I don't really wanna do.

Anyways, I plugged it into my computer, and it recognized it right away. I must not be seeing what I need to see in that effing Utility.

Deegee · 09-28-2009, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by MarchHare

They just work.

Yeah, I get pretty sick of hearing that from Apple die hards.

My coworker was tickled pink about her new Mac and how everything just works. Every chance she gets to put down anyone who buys a PC she does.

We work in a small office and all follow Fringe, but all missed the first episode of the new season.

I downloaded/burned it for everyone and guess who couldn't get it to work on her computer.

Berger_4_ · 09-28-2009, 05:54 PM

It's listed when I go to the utility, but it doesn't seem to show up on my screen anywhere if I look for it. Do I need to change some other preferences or something on my computer?

3 Justin 3 · 09-28-2009, 06:02 PM

This has nothing to do with your problem but when my iPod broke, which is still minorly broken (the headphones doc), they said to reset the iPod. I then paid $40 to send it to Apple so they could fix it, all they did was re-set it, something which I did 4 times before I sent it in. Then I got it back and it was still broken, when I phoned, they told me to re-set it, and then send it in. Just thought I would rant about Apple being stupid, and their products not working.

Relating to this thread, it might be a problem on the computer end (I don't even know what a AirPort Extreme is though). But it sounds like your trying to stream your music from this AirPort thing to your computer anywhere in your house. I know when I was trying to set up my xbox and my computer (so I could stream onto my tv), it took me ages for my computer to find my xbox.

Again, I am not sure what your talking about, but check your computer settings. Media sharing is what I had to change, I assume it is the same for you as well. This shows my xbox, bro's xbox, mom's computer, bro's computer (with access to the Harddrives).

Berger_4_ · 09-28-2009, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3

This has nothing to do with your problem but when my iPod broke, which is still minorly broken (the headphones doc), they said to reset the iPod. I then paid $40 to send it to Apple so they could fix it, all they did was re-set it, something which I did 4 times before I sent it in. Then I got it back and it was still broken, when I phoned, they told me to re-set it, and then send it in. Just thought I would rant about Apple being stupid, and their products not working.

Relating to this thread, it might be a problem on the computer end (I don't even know what a AirPort Extreme is though). But it sounds like your trying to stream your music from this AirPort thing to your computer anywhere in your house. I know when I was trying to set up my xbox and my computer (so I could stream onto my tv), it took me ages for my computer to find my xbox.

Again, I am not sure what your talking about, but check your computer settings. Media sharing is what I had to change, I assume it is the same for you as well. This shows my xbox, bro's xbox, mom's computer, bro's computer (with access to the Harddrives).

The AirPort is an Apple router. I had a...Linxsys I think, but hard drive sharing only worked for PC's, and I've got me a MBP. So I had to go buy this thing, and it's making me want to shoot people in the face.

MarchHare · 09-28-2009, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by sclitheroe

For 8 to 12 months at a time

My post wasn't meant to be a endorsement of Linksys but rather a jab at the Apple fanboys on this forum who come into every PC tech support thread and contribute nothing to the discussion other than telling the original poster that he or she should have purchased a Mac instead.

Deegee got the joke.

3 Justin 3 · 09-28-2009, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Berger_4_

The AirPort is an Apple router. I had a...Linxsys I think, but hard drive sharing only worked for PC's, and I've got me a MBP. So I had to go buy this thing, and it's making me want to shoot people in the face.

Apple sure has a monopoly with use of its products. You need their products or your hooped.

HotHotHeat · 09-28-2009, 06:54 PM

As I said, you cannot add music to your itunes library over a wireless XHD. It's way too demanding of a program to base it wirelessly.

Mightyfire89 · 09-28-2009, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Berger_4_

God, I really feel kinda bad for making people troubleshoot my stuff for me. Here's the deal today. Bought an AirPort Extreme, and I hooked my external hard drive up to it so I can access my music through my computer anywhere in the house. Damn computer won't find the hard drive though. So what's the effing deal? Did I set up the base station wrong or what?

Ugh...

I just did this last week and it was just an enormous pain in the arse. Check the following link, it helped me a little bit, but it took checking a bunch of other sites and tons of monkeying around with things to finally get it to work. the worst part is, it started working without me knowing exactly how I got it to work, so there's probably no chance in hell I could do it again.

http://www.macworldcanada.ca/news/he...1272/pg001.htm

Good luck.

silentsim · 09-28-2009, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

As I said, you cannot add music to your itunes library over a wireless XHD. It's way too demanding of a program to base it wirelessly.

Actually my media is all centralized and multiple computers use it as the Library over wireless N, and it works perfect. (All computers + router are Wireless N)

Yeah_Baby · 09-28-2009, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Deegee

I downloaded/burned it for everyone and guess who couldn't get it to work on her computer.

She obviously isn't that mac literate then. Hell even internet literate, a quick google search and she'd be laughing.

Barnes · 09-28-2009, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by MarchHare

My post wasn't meant to be a endorsement of Linksys but rather a jab at the Apple fanboys on this forum who come into every PC tech support thread and contribute nothing to the discussion other than telling the original poster that he or she should have purchased a Mac instead.

Deegee got the joke.

Even more annoying is the non Apple fanboys coming into every Apple tech support thread and contribute nothing to the discussion other than to make an unfunny reference to Apple fanboys saying they should have purchased a Mac in every PC tech support forums.

Berger_4_ · 09-28-2009, 08:57 PM

Well before this degenerates into the usual pissing match, I think I got it. I have no idea how I did but I think it'll work...I just have to re-import all my music...so that's kind of a bitch being as I've got 40 gigs of the stuff to deal with.

sclitheroe · 09-28-2009, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by MarchHare

My post wasn't meant to be a endorsement of Linksys but rather a jab at the Apple fanboys on this forum who come into every PC tech support thread and contribute nothing to the discussion other than telling the original poster that he or she should have purchased a Mac instead.

Deegee got the joke.

I got it too, don't worry. Your humor "just works"