Apple AirPort Networks - Manual (Page 54)

54 Chapter 3 AirPort Network Designs
Sharing and Securing USB Hard Disks on Your Network
If you connect a USB hard disk to your AirPort Extreme Base Station or Time Capsule,
computers connected to the network—both wireless and wired, Mac and Windows—
can use it to back up, store, and share files.
If you’re using a Time Capsule, you don’t need to connect a hard disk to it. Every Time
Capsule includes an internal AirPort disk.
To share a hard disk on your network:
1 Plug the hard disk into the USB port on the back of the AirPort Extreme Base Station
or Time Capsule.
2 Open AirPort Utility, located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder on a Mac,
or in Start > All Programs > AirPort on a Windows computer.
3 Select your AirPort Extreme Base Station or your Time Capsule, and then choose Base
Station > Manual Setup, or double-click the device icon to open its configuration in a
separate window. Enter the password if necessary.
4 Click the Disks button, and then click File Sharing.
5 Choose “With a disk password,” or “With base station password” if you want to secure
the shared disk with a password, or choose “With accounts” if you want to secure the
disk using accounts.
 If you choose to use accounts, click Configure Accounts, click the Add (+) button,
and then enter a name and password for each user that will access the disk.
6 Choose “Not allowed,” “Read only,” or “Read and write” to assign guest access to
the disk.
7 Select the “Share disks over Ethernet WAN port” checkbox if you want to provide
remote access to the disk over the WAN port.
Data transfer speed may vary, depending on the network.
to Internet
DSL or cable modem
AirPort Extreme USB hard disk
Ethernet WAN port <
2.4 or 5 GHz
2.4 or 5 GHz