On Jan 6, 2011, at 7:17 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: > * If you attach USB storage, it can *NOT* be used as a Time Machine > backup disk; supports AFP and CIFS, I think. No NFS. ISTR that, a > few years ago with the previous device, I had an external disk > attached, HFS+ formatted, shared and it worked with my wife's XP box > once I installed third-party FS drivers, but there was some > temperamentality there.
There's actually a not-so-well known option to force Time Machine to be available on devices that would not normally support it. I'm sure that's covered in an Apple KB document. Of course, I would never use this option because AFP and Time Machine to a server that officially supports it is slow enough, doing it to an unsupported device plugged in via USB to your base station is going to be dead-dog slow. The USB port can also be used to enable network access for a printer, if you like. For my own part, I'm still looking for a good dual-WAN VPN-capable firewall/router. What I have found so far has been very non-satisfactory. -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
