Airport extreme hard drive sharing windows 7

I'm done playing with this darn thing. User profile for user: bdfoster bdfoster As far as it actually working even if you have the right format, who knows.

User profile for user: rcsampson nc. Apr 3, PM in response to Stachal In response to Stachal After previously spending several hours trying to resolve the issue myself An hour on the phone with AppleCare First, the bottom line I tried every trick I could think of but it was all to no avail. Several people have noted the usual limits imposed by Windows on a FAT32 formatted drive but I was able to successfully format my GB drive with the tool above without issue.

Once I did that I hooked it up to my AEBS and by the time I got back to my laptop my router's in another room I had a pop-up window on my screen notifying me of the newly available drive on my network. Such a beautiful thing!!! I hope this post helps some of you folks avoid the degree of frustration I experienced while trying to get my AEBS and external hard drive to play nicely together!

User profile for user: Clarki Clarki I have tried a number of different disks and have formatted them to FAT32 - the issue is that I can see the drives via Airport Utility, but I can't map them as network drives.

The router publishes it's IP address as I can ping the router at Any ideas welcome! User profile for user: eliealkobey eliealkobey. User profile for user: citrixguy citrixguy. I configured it for file sharing and set a disk password. I was not able to access the drive. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Divya R. Hi jpyciak, a. What are the steps that you have tried to connect to the network?

Follow the steps given below to do the same. To turn on network discovery, file and printer sharing, and public folder sharing in Windows 7 1. Under Public folder sharing, do one of the following: o To share your Public folders so that people on other computers on the network can open files in them but can't create or change files, click Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can open files.

Details required :. Cancel Submit. Billion Debbarma. Let me help you to fix the issue. Method 1. At first uninstall the driver. Select Compatibility tab. Check Run this program in Compatibility mode. Let the driver install and then check the functionality.

If the issue still persist, try the below method. Method 2. If the above method did not help to fix the issue, try the below method. Method 3. Once Check Disk completes, boot the computer and then check. Search titles only. Search Advanced search…. New posts. Log in. Install the app. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.

Thread starter stueygeorge Start date May 3, Joined Mar 31, Messages 4 Reaction score 0 Points 1. The title says it all. I can't see the external hard drive connected to the airport extreme on my windows PC.