Network External Hard Drive on D-Link Router

Uhhh...OK. Two things. What do I do to correct that and what does that mean?!

HFS+ is the format of Macintosh hard drive volumes. This format is not natively understood by windows pc's. It is unlikely that a d-link router would understand a mac formatted drive. So check the manual that came with your router.

The drive will probably have to be initialised (formatted) as a windows format either FAT32 or NTFS.

The mac can only natively format the FAT32 format. It can only format NTFS if you install NTFS-3G

I have just checked the dlink website and yes the latest firmware for that router enabled what they call 'shareport' this makes the usb port accept a printer or usb hard drive. The software to connect to these devices is windows only so you may be out of luck.

Message was edited by: Tim Haigh

Hey Fellas.

Mind If I join into this convo?

Ok here's my situation, quite similar to the topic poster. I have a Dlink router and I have an external which is formated Fat32 & I have purchased the Paragon NTFS for mac: http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac so that I can use the external hd on my mac.

Now here's the deal. Basically, what I want to do is;

1. connect the external drive to my router
2. send files from my computer onto the external drive

Is that possible? If so, how is it done?

Thanks folks.
-Joey

The D-Link SharePort USB Utility that you need to download and install on each computer in your network in order to use the SharePort feature is not Mac compatible (nor is it 64-bit compatible at this time, for those who've stumbled upon this thread looking for answers).

Here's the download page: http://www.dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=530&sec=0

What is the model of your d-link router?

Without even reading the specs of that router I would guess your problem is that your usb hard drive is formatted as hfs+ and not windows format.