Setup External Hard Drive w/ Airport Extreme??

Hi,

I've recently set up an Airport Extreme as my router on my home network. I also just purchased a Buffalo 1 TB external hard drive and planned to connect to the AE for the purpose of wireless storage. However, when I plugged in my external drive to the AE via USB, I'm unable to see anything on my Macbook. I search for it and nothing comes up.

Can someone please help? Do I need to format the external drive first? If so, how?

My Macbook is brand new and am running OSX 10.8.2.

Any help would be hugely appreciated!

Cheers!

Do you have a new Airport Extreme? According to Apple you should be able to share your hard drive over the network. See this LINK.

Thanks - I thought I'd be able to both download and upload files to the external hard drive wirelessly. Is this possible?

thistlecush said:

Thanks - I thought I'd be able to both download and upload files to the external hard drive wirelessly. Is this possible?

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Then you may want to look at one of these. Personal Cloud Storage Overview

How is your external HD formatted... for a widows machine or for OSX

try to plug the HD into a USB port on your mac and use disk utility to check and make sure it is in
Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

External usb drive

In finder menu, select "GO", then Connect to Server. Put in the IP address of the external drive. You will see the drive in devices.