Cannot connect Windows 7 laptop to USB HDD attached to Airport Extreme
I would appreciate anyone's help regarding the following issue. The situation is as follows:
- Laptop with Windows 7 installed
- Laptop connects to Airport Extreme (5th generation) through Wifi
- An external HDD (WD Elements 1TB) is attached to the Airport Extreme's USB
- The external HDD is visible in Airport Utility and should work fine, as far as the Airport Utility is concerned
- The external HDD is also visible in Windows Explorer and works fine when I attach it directly to the laptop's USB
- However, I cannot access the HDD from my laptop when it's connected to the Airport Extreme's USB
- I've followed all the steps described in http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1331 for mapping a network drive, so I've done the following:
- I opened "Map Network Drive"
- I selected an unused drive letter
- I checked the Airport Extreme for the correct IP address (in my case: 10.0.1.1) and the HDD for its correct name (in my case called: "Backup")
- I entered the correct path to the drive, using the above IP address and HDD's name
- After doing all this, I keep receiving the following error message: "Windows cannot access \\10.0.1.1\Backup. Check the spelling of the name. Otherwise, there might be a problem with your network. To try and identify and resolve network problems, click Diagnose."
- Details of the error message are as follows: "Error code: 0x80070035. The network path was not found."
- When I select "Diagnose", Windows indicates that the external device or the external source does not accept the connection.
- Access to the Airport Extreme is password protected. Same for the HDD. However, Windows does not prompt me to give the username and password, which might be causing the problem.
Does anyone have any idea how to solve this?
Thanks,
Paul
Airport Extreme (5th gen)-OTHER, Windows 7