Q: ftp, nas, outside access?

paddeg, Welcome to the discussion area!

It is possible to remotely connect to a USB connected hard drive... but not through FTP.

Apple's Personal File Sharing or Windows File Sharing

Hey Duane,

If you don't mind explain it for me as if I was a 2 year old, how do I setup the drive to be accessed outside my home network? What do I type in the browser window? http://”my public IP” or is it \ \”my public IP” or something else? Give me an example. Have all the settings enabled for the drive to be accessed via WAN.

zlatteboy, Welcome to the discussion area!

...how do I setup the drive to be accessed outside my home network?

Launch AirPort Utility:

1. Click File Sharing.
2. Choose "With a disk password," or "With base station password" if you want to secure the shared disk with a password, or choose "With accounts" if you want to secure the disk using accounts.
   
   If you choose to use accounts, click Configure Accounts, click the Add button, and then enter a name and password for each user that will access the disk.
3. Choose "Not allowed," Read only," or "Read and write" to assign guest access to the disk.
4. Select the "Share disks over Ethernet WAN port" checkbox to provide remote access to the disk over the WAN port.

AirPort Utility 5.1 Help: Sharing a USB hard disk on your network

You don't use the browser:

1. From the Finder's Go menu choose Connect to Server.
2. Enter the AirPort Extreme Base Station's WAN IP address (the one provided by your ISP).
3. Enter the username and password required to access the AirPort Disk(s).
4. Select the desired AirPort Disk(s) from the available Volumes.

AirPort: How to mount an AirPort Extreme USB hard disk volume in Mac OS X and Windows

Hi-

I just want to further this subject along, and make sure I'm clear...

There is absolutely no way to FTP directly into a USB disk connected to an AEBS? Correct?

If this is the case, is it possible to have another computer connected to the AEBS (say an old G4 tower via ethernet cable) serve the external hard drive through FTP?

While I can understand using the finder is one way to access the external disk via the AEBS, I find the finder excruciatingly slow, even though its a breeze to setup.

FTP seems to work much quicker...

Where can I find instructions on how to set this up?

S.

Hi.
How do i do the same thing to access my airport disk in windows from another network?

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