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Airport Extreme plug in a USB hard drive?
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I have an Airport Extreme (not Time Capsule) and I notice it has a USB port on it. Is this only for printers or can I plug an external hard drive in there to backup my computers wirelessly?
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Only printers are supported. I'm not sure how they did that, but a lot of people have tried and tried and only printers work through that version of the AE.
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Thanks for that info. That's too bad really. I guess they want to sell more Time Capsules...
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Hmmm?!?!
I have an OWC drive plugged in to the USB port on our AirPort Extreme and it works as a shared drive and as a Time Machine back up drive for our 3 Macs. Guess I must have screwed up sumthin?
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I think Glenn is mistaken.
IIRC every AirPort Extreme can handle both printers and HDDs connected to its USB port. If you use a hub you can actually use several at the same time.
It's the AirPort Express that can only be connected to printers, but not HDDs.
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Simon is correct. Printers only on Express. HDs and printers on Extreme. As many as you want on either with a hub.
Hopefully Apple's next generation of networking hardware will use names that are a little bit easier to distinguish between.
Knowing Apple, though, probably not.
Steve
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Celebrating 10 years and 4000 posts on MacNN!
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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Crap! I did the old "mixed up Express and Extreme" thing again, didn't I? RATS. Sorry.
Is it known whether cameras, iPods/iPhones, etc. will work on either device?
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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