Hi William, In both cases, you'll need to initially open the Airport Utility and use the Manually configure option. That is, once in the Airport Utility app, select the Extreme or Express from the Table then press cmd-l. Airport Utility will ask you for your password, this is the setup password, not your wireless SID password. Once in the manual config mode, Interact with the Toolbar and select either Disk or Printer depending on which device you're setting up. Remember, since your disk is connected to the Extreme, you can only setup Disk options when connected to the Extreme. You'll need to manually configure the Express to setup printer settings. You also need to Quit and restart Airport Utility between device setups.
So, to set up your Disk, connect to the Extreme in Manual mode. In the Toolbar, select Disks. Within this pane, you should first select the Disks tab and make sure that disk and all its partitions are visible to the Extreme. Next, select the File sharing tab and check the box to share your drive. All partitions on that drive will be shared. Set a password if you wish. Once you have everything the way you want it,, press the Update button in the bottom right-hand corner of the window. To access these drives/partitions, you'll need to use your sidebar within any Finder window. The shared drives will appear under the Airport Extreme name within the Shared section of your sidebar. Simply select the Extreme, Stop Interacting with the sidebar, then navigate right to the Connect As button. If you set a password, you'll be asked to enter it at this point. Next, navigate to the List Table or Column Browser (depending on your window settings) and open whichever partition you wish to mount. If you have your Finder Prefs set to show Mounted Servers on the Desktop, this volume will now show up there for you. Also, if you want it to automatically appear upon login, go under your system Preferences to the Accounts System Pref under Login Items. When this disk is mounted, it should be available to Time Machine. To share your USB Printer that is connected to the Express, open Airport Utility and connect to the Express in manual mode. Select Printers in the Toolbar and follow the setup within that pane. All computers in your network will be able to add that printer by going into their System Preferences under Printers & Fax. Simply press the Add Printer button, make sure that the Default Browser is selected in the Toolbar and it will add just the same as any regular USB printer. Hope this was what you were looking for. Later... On 2011-06-19, at 7:34 AM, William Windels wrote: > Hello all, > I have bought a airport extreme and express station. > The internet is shared successfully and the music is playing trough my > music-installation with airplay successfully. > But , I want to do 2 more things: > a brother laserprinter is connected to the usb-port of my airport express and > my backup hd for time-machine is connected trough my airport extreme with a > hub between the hd and the airport extreme. > The problem is that I can't add the disk and the printer to share over the > network. > e.g., I can see the partitions on my disc that's connected to my airport > extreme but Ican't add the partitions for use with e.g. time-machine. > So, I can't see any partition on the disc in my finder. > > So, 2 questions: > How can I add a printer on my airport express for global use on the network? > How can I add my external hd to my finder from the airport extreme to use > with time-machine or view the contents of the partitions on that hd in my > finder. > > I hope there are no accessibility problems with this setup. > > If it's a long explanation and you know a good guide, you can give it to me > also. > > Thanx alot for you suggestions/help. > > best regards, > William > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
