Hi all I am wondering if it is possible for me to mount my external hard drive on to my network for all computers on it to access files and save files to it??? I have posted it in here as I am a Mac user primarily. Any help greatly appreciated
Hello, macboy: An AirPort Extreme base station will allow you to connect a drive to your wireless network. However, some users complain about stability issues (i.e. losing the connection to the drive.) Furthermore, Time Machine (Mac OS 10.5) will not back up to a drive connected to an Airport Extreme base station.
Yes, networking will definitely allow you to do this. However, whenever the airport hub goes on the fritz you lose access. They also sell now hard drives that are purely built as "wireless" but most consumers have said to go for firewire or USB 2 still
No one answered his question. He just wants to share his external drive over the network. All he has to do is go to System Preferences then Sharing then turn on File Sharing. Then browse to that Mac using the Finder (the menubar's Go then Network) and mount the volume. This is what I do to mount multiple external drives connected to a Mac mini on my network.
