I am trying to connect to my hard drive remotely. Sorry for not being clear!!
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How do I configure an Airport extreme for remote access
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58 Chapter 3 AirPort Network Designs
To share a USB hard disk on you network:
1 Plug the hard disk into the USB port on the back of the base station.
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 base station, and then choose Manual Setup from the Base Station menu,
or double-click the base station to open its configuration in a separate window. Enter
the base station 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.
THIS IS THE PART YOU NED:
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.
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combine this with a dyndns-service; and normally you should be able to access your disk on the external ip using the default port of AFP (548)
The two USB hard drives are connected to the Airport extreme via a powered belkin USD expander. The station has a pass word and the disks are also password protected.
For some background to my business is that I am a print manager. I have about 7 printers that do work for me and when I am on the road I sometimes need to access my hard drives for files or info that is stored. I can contract to a mobile broadband modem which will give me remote access anywhere in the UK.
What I need to do now is to configure my airport for remote access. My airport is also connected to a Linksys router.
I know I can by another MAC and probably the SPY ME 2 software to help with the remote access. Is this really necessary or can I do the less expensive route of missing these two extra costs out?
I have set up a network with the airport extreme. There are two USB hard drives connected to the extreme base station via a powered Belkin USB extender. My aim is to be able to connect to the hard drives through the internet . The Airport extreme is also connected to a Linksys router. I have found a facility within the manual set up of the airport extreme where you can create a hostname, IP address, user and password but I do not understand how to set this up.
There must be a way of configuring the extreme through these settings!?
I am not an IT genius but can find my way around.
1. As far as I know cannot share more than 1 usb drive from the Airport Extreme. Have you managed to do this and can you access the USB drive from the internal network?
2. If you attach the USB drive and enable WAN access then you should be able to access the drive remotely .. but there are a few issues.
a) Shared Drives are located at the same IP address as the wireless Airport Extreme .. they are advertised via Bonjour .. so you need to open port 5353 on all firewalls. Will you be using a Mac or Win Pc to access the drive remotely?
b) It will depend on whether you are using the DHCP features of the Airport Extreme or the Linksys or both .. how network traffic is routed to the USB drive
Personally, I'd recommend plugging the Belkin and 2 usb drives into a Windows or mac computer on your network .. then install LogMeIn Hamachi (https://secure.logmein.co
Hamachi is FREE.
Also look at LogMeIn Free and Pro which allows screen sharing from any remote browser to your office PC.
Yes. You have a free option listed below. The one pitfall is at home you most likely will not have a static IP. You have to use a service like dyndns as mentioned above, however there is still a problem. Airport Extreme/Time Capsule cannot update to those services when the IP changes. If you have an always on computer at home you can install free software to do that. But the average person who is trying to do this only has a laptop and that is with them. So if you are at work and you IP changes at home you have to wait til you get home to have it update to dyndns.
If you have a Mac you and MobileMe you can do all this and bypass the issue of the not having a static IP, since the Airport Extreme can tell MobileMe when your IP changes at home. The one pitfall with this near perfect solution is MobileMe costs 99 per year. If you dont mind that or already have it, your all set! Just logged into Airport Extreme or Time Capsule and there is a setting under Advanced to enter your MobileMe Info. You can also get a trial account for 60 days to test it out.
If you have either a Time Capsule (which is basically an AirPort Extreme Base Station with a built-in 500 GB or 1 TB hard drive) or an AirPort Extreme Base Station (AEBS) with an attached USB hard drive, you can share out the Time Capsule/AEBS hard drive and make it accessible via the Internet. To do this:
1. Start the Airport Utility.
2. Select your Time Capsule or AEBS. Make a note of the IP Address shown on the right -- you will need it later.
3. Click Manual Setup.
4. Check your "Connection Sharing" setting under the Internet Tab. The following tutorial is valid if your "Connection Sharing" is to "Share a public IP address", the normal setup for a home network. You will need to have a static IP address, or use a free dynamic DNS service. If you have a different type of "Connection Sharing," you probably don't need a tutorial to set up remote access to your disk; adapt this one as needed.
5. Click Disks (at the top of the dialog box), and then click File Sharing.
6. Select (check) the "Enable file sharing" checkbox and the "Share disks over Ethernet WAN port" checkbox. It is strongly recommended that you also set Secure Shared Disks to "With base station password" and Guest Access to "Not allowed"; not making these changes may allow unauthorized users to access your Time Capsule/AEBS hard drive.
7. Click Airport (at the top of the dialog box), and then click Base Station.
8. Enter a Base Station Password and verify it in the Verify Password box.
9. Click Advanced (at the top of the dialog box), and then click Port Mapping.
10. Click the plus sign (+) to add a new port mapping.
11. In the Public UDP Port(s) and Public TCP Port(s) boxes, type in a 4-digit port number (e.g., 5678) that you choose. In the Private IP Address box, type the internal IP address of your Time Capsule or AEBS that you wrote down in step 2 (for example, 192.168.0.1). In the Private UDP Port(s) and Private TCP Port(s) boxes, type 548. Click Continue.
12. In the Description box, type a descriptive name like "Time Capsule File Sharing" or "AEBS File Sharing". Then, click Done.
13. When you have made all changes, click Update.
Your Time Capsule/AEBS will restart. Once it does, you are now ready to connect to the Time Capsule/AEBS hard drive via the Internet. To do this when your MBA is away from home:
1. In the Finder, click Go > Connect to Server.
2. Type in the correct domain name or external IP address for your network, plus a colon and the port number you specified in step 11. For example, "www.myhomedomain.com:5678
3. Click Connect.
4. You will be prompted for your user name and password. The user name can be anything you like; the password should be the password for the Time Capsule/AEBS which you specified above.
5. Click Connect.
Voilà! You are now connected to your Time Capsule/AEBS hard drive from your MBA. You can access files, copy files back and forth between your MBA and the hard drive, delete files, whatever you want, as long as your MBA remains network-connected. The next time you go to connect, it should go even more quickly (especially if you save your password in your keychain, and if you add your home IP address/domain name to your list of Favorite Servers in the Connect dialog box).
Note that the Time Capsule/AEBS will appear in the Shared section of your Finder's sidebar as a server, with the Base Station Name of the Time Capsule/AEBS as the server name.
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by: godfriedverheyenPosted on 2007-12-31 at 09:29:42ID: 20556310
What are you trying to do?
Do you want to change the configuration remotely?
Or are you trying to access your connected hard-drive remotely?