Well, I don't know if this will help. I found this article and I am not sure if this is is all necessary or not.
http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/laptops/icloud-how-to-setup-back-to-my-mac-50005107/ Take Care John Panarese jpanar...@gmail.com On Feb 5, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Paul Henrichsen wrote: > Hi, guys. I figured it out. The drive must be formatted as a mac journal > drive to be seen by the airport extreme. Once I did that, everything showed > up as it should. > Next thing to figure out is how does one get files onto a macbook pro or air > when not at home from the external drive through the cloud? > As I understand it, it should show up in the shared area in finder. > I'll have to wait until I'm not at home for that one. > It would be really neat if we could access this external drive from our > iPhone or iPad. Hopefully, someone will write an app for that. > That would be neat if you could download a movie or tv show you didn't have > on your iPad or iPhone from the external drive. > > On Feb 5, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Bill Holton wrote: > >> On the disk tab there was a partition table. I had to go into that table >> and highlight a drive, then stop interacting and move down where it then >> asked if I wanted to give permission and if I wanted to require a password. >> After that I did an update. The reason my second drive wasn’t showing up >> was apparently I had not gone through those steps with the second partition >> in the drive partition table. Hope this helps. >> >> >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Henrichsen >> Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 1:59 AM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Airport problem solved, but two more questions >> >> Hi. I have a 3TB seegate goflex connected to my airport extreme. When I go >> into the disk tab of the utility, I don't see any partitions in the table. >> I don't see any sidebar as noted in the below message. >> I have share over WAN checked and have set up this using two accounts (Mine >> and my wife's) for the present. >> However, I can't figure out how to get the disk tab dialog to see even one >> partition. I'm not going to partition the drive; just use the whole 3TB to >> store files. >> I use carbon copy backup on a firewire drive; so am not going to use time >> machine. >> I was sent two articles by apple concerning setting up the back to my mac >> feature which I have set up, but both articles won't open when I open the >> links. I am told there are too many redirects. >> How do I get my airport extreme to see my 3TB drive? >> Thanks. >> >> On Feb 4, 2012, at 12:19 PM, Bill Holton wrote: >> >> >> Hi. >> This worked great. But now I have two further questions. >> 1: Is there any way to rename a drive once it’s discovered from the >> Airport. Just pressing Enter doesn’t work like it does with drives directly >> connected. >> 2: I have also attached me HP printer to the Airport Extreme. My mini can >> find it easily, but the Windows 7 and Win XP boxes don’t seem to be able to >> find it. Am I doing something wrong or does Router printing sharing only >> work with Macs? >> Thanks. >> >> >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Kilburn >> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2012 12:29 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: The new Airport Utility and a question about connections >> >> Hi Bill, >> >> When in Airport Utility, Interact with the Network Group. VO-space on the >> Airport Extreme you wish to work with. Press the Edit button to get at the >> configuration options. Select the Disk tab to see the options available in >> that pane. They are similar to those in the previous AU. Make sure that >> both your partitions are shared in the format you prefer. Update if >> necessary. >> >> The MacOS will mount whichever share you have setup for your Time Machine >> backups as "Time Machine Backups" on your machine as the Time Machine is >> doing it's job. If you have shared the partitions through AU, you can >> access the partitions individually via the Sidebar by first choosing your >> Airport Extreme from the Shared section of the Sidebar. Your partitions >> will then appear in the window where you can mount one or both as you >> please. They will not appear automatically or upon startup unless you set >> this up in the Users & Groups pane of your system Preferences. This is >> usually done by first mounting the drive you wish auto-mounted, going to the >> Login Items of Users & Groups system Pref, then adding the volume you wish >> to auto-mount. >> >> Hope this clears some things up for you. If you're still confused, let me >> know. >> >> Later... >> >> On 2012-02-04, at 9:26 AM, Bill Holton wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi. >> Has anyone tried the updated Airport Utility. It seems rather inaccessible >> to me. Once I found a way into the menus with bay station, wireless, etc. >> but I can’t find my way back there. >> Before, I had a 2 tarabyte drive partitioned into two 1t drives connected to >> my airport extreme and I could se them both on my desktop. I had all the >> ports on the extreme filled and had to use the Mini wirelessly, so I moved >> the drive to directly connected to mmy mini where they also worked fine. >> Now I have my mini connected with a wired connection, want to move them >> back. I can find the drive I use for my time machine backups, but the other >> drive simply will not show up. I reformatted it with Mac Journaling, and I >> have looked everywhere. I use the Finer to go to my computer, to network, >> to my airport, it’s just not there. I did get into the airport software >> yesterday and make sure the box is checked to connect external drives. For >> now the drives are labeled test and TM for time machine. On my desktop the >> TM drives shows up, but it’s called Time Machine backups. The Test drive >> will not show up. 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