Airport Extreme shared disk will not show on desktop.
I have an airport extreme 802.11n (7.6.4), with a 3TB drive attached via USB and shared "With device password".
I formatted the drive "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" attached directly via USB to my Mac, and then ejected and moved to the base station.
I have two computers:
- Apple Macbook Pro (Mavericks 10.9.5), with a bootcamp partition or Windows 7
- Windows 7 on a PC
From Windows 7 I can map a network drive and read/write files fine.
From the Mac; I open Finder -> on the sidebar (under Shared) select the base station -> Connect -> enter password ->click on shared drive:
- The share opens fine, but does not get listed as a device in the sidebar, or on the desktop. (In my Finder preferences, for "Show these items", I have everything checked under both General and Sidebar.
- If I close the Finder window that is showing me the share, and repeat the above steps to open the folder again, I receive the error: "The operation can't be completed because the original item for "External" can't be found"
- If I open terminal, and run "mount", I see the share mounted with //Username@hostname.afpovertcp._tcp.local/External on /Volumes/External (afpfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by username)
- If I umount /Volumes/External in terminal, and then reopen the share using the above steps, the share window appears fine.
- If I umount again, and then instead of the above steps, I command-k (In finder) -> Server Address: smb://192.168.1.254/External, The share window opens, an icon appears on the desktop, and a PC looking icon appears in the sidebar.
To attempt to fix this, I have tried (including multiple reboots of the Mac, base station, and un-mapping of the drive on Windows 7):
- Deleting any associated keys for the base station from the keystore, and reconnecting.
- Rebooting the base station, and drive enclosure.
- Disconnecting the drive from the base station and connecting directly to the Mac. The drive does not show in the sidebar, or create an icon on the desktop. I then ran a Verify Disk, from disk utility, which completed with no errors.
- I deleted all file and folders, including any hidden files or folders via terminal
- Ran a verify disk, and repair permissions on the Mac OS disk; also tried to modify directory permissions of the /Volumes/External Directory. When mounted via AFP, /Volumes is 777 with extended attributes of com.apple.FinderInfo (owned by root:admin), and /Volumes/External is 700 with extended attributes of com.apple.FinderInfo (owned by my username:staff). I tried to chmod 755 and then 777 /Volumes/External. The permissions of both directories are the same whether mounted via AFP or SMB.
Finally:
- I left the drive connected via USB, and used disk utility to erase the drive (1 partition ), and the the drive immediately showed up on the desktop.
- I ejected, connected to the base station, and mounted with sidebar, via AFP. Icon appeared in sidebar, and desktop.
- I remapped drive on Windows 7, and used robocopy to copy back the 1.7TB or data back to the drive. The Mac still showed the desktop icon fine.
- I rebooted the Mac, and it reverts back to the old behavior of not showing any icons.
- I did a complete reinstall (booted off of install media, erase partition, formatted, installed and patched Mavericks on the Mac), but this made no difference.
At all times, I can read/write files to/from the drive and Mac while mounted via AFP.
When I dismount the drive and remount via AFP, nothing except "sharingd: dnssd_clientstub DNSSerivceRefDeallocate called with invalid DNSServiceRef 0x7fc96b4cbcc0 FFF0007 DDDDDDDD" is logged in the console application. (I have tried to change the base station name, to no avail)
This is a small inconvenience (except for the fact that it won't allow me to use this shared drive for time machine), but is also driving me crazy. I cannot be sure, but I feel like this issue started around the time that I installed Windows 7 via bootcamp.
AirPort Extreme 802.11n (5th Gen), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)