How To Use A USB Hub And Access Hard Drives With AirPort Extreme


The AirPort Extreme has a USB port through which you can access a range of compatible USB devices, including printers, scanners, and external hard drives. Because the AirPort Extreme has only one USB port, you must use a USB hub if you want to connect multiple USB-compatible devices. To function properly, the USB hub must have its own power supply; it cannot be powered by the bus.

Instructions

1.      Connect the USB hub to the "USB" port on the back of the AirPort Extreme using the USB cable of the hub.

2.      Plug the power of the USB hub cable into a power outlet. Turn on the USB hub if it has its own power button.

3.      Connect your devices to the USB hub and turn them on.

4.      Launch the AirPort Utility on your computer. The AirPort Utility is located in the Mac and Computer Applications folder in the Major Programs directory on Windows computers. If you do not have an AirPort installed on your computer, download and install it.

5.      Select your AirPort Extreme device in the AirPort application and click "Continue."

6.      Follow the on-screen instructions to create a new wireless connection with the devices connected to your Photos hub.

How to access hard drives connected to AirPort Extreme

Network Attached Storage has become as common as multimedia devices, and they can be easily connected to the internet for a number of tasks such as file sharing and streaming media, etc. If you want, you can access NAS drives by connecting them to the AirPort  Extreme Wireless Access Point from Apple via remote share mounting. As we all know that modern file managers are designed keeping the file-sharing in mind, therefore, it is easy to access remote share because you know the IP address of your AirPort Extreme. In case, you don’t, then the IP address can be found on the list, which is present under the gateway in the network settings.

Here is how you can access the hard drives connected to Apple AirPort Extreme:

1.      Open a file browser window, which is Mac Finder for Mac computers and Windows Explorer for Windows computers.

2.      In the address bar, enter \\192.168.0.5\\ share, where the IP address of the NAS is 192.168. 0.5 and "share" is the name of the action. In Mac OS X, you need to click "OK" then "Connect to Server" followed by typing smb://192.168.0.5/share. In case, you are unaware of the IP address of the NAS that you wish to access, then you can run a utility, one like AirPort Disk (Windows) or AirPort Utility (Mac) to determine it.

3.      Now, you will have to enter the login details to access the share.


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