Mac airport hard drive setup

[airplanes18]

i need extremely detailed instruction on how to share a hard drive through the mac airport extreme. ive sat for ours trying and fiddling and im tired of dead ends. i have acsess 2 three operating systems so if i need to switch from vista 64bit to mac or ubuntu i can. this is the final attempt. after today and this try, im taking it back. i never liked mac stuff.


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[ElDiabloConCaca]

From the instruction manual:

If you connect a USB hard disk to your AirPort Extreme Base Station, computers connected to the network, both wireless and wired, can use it to back up, store, and share files.

To share a USB hard disk on you network:

1 Plug the hard disk into the USB port on the back of the base station.

2 Open AirPort Utility, located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder on a Mac, and in Start > All Programs > AirPort on a computer using Windows

3 Select your base station, and then choose Manual Setup from the Base Station menu, or double-click the base station to open its configuration in a separate window. Enter the base station password if necessary.

4 Click Disks in the toolbar, and then click File Sharing.

5 Choose “With a disk password,” or “With base station password” if you want to secure the shared disk with a password, or choose “With accounts” if you want to secure the disk using accounts.

If you choose to use accounts, click Configure Accounts, click the Add (+) button, and then enter a name and password for each user that will access the disk.

6 Choose “Not allowed,” “Read only,” or “Read and write” to assign guest access to the disk.

7 Select the “Share disks over Ethernet WAN port” checkbox if you want to provide remote access to the disk over the WAN port.

It would help if the drive was formatted in a Mac-friendly format -- i.e., HFS+ (or "Mac OS Extended").

If you're getting stuck at one of those steps, please post back with which precise step is giving you trouble and any other information related to the trouble (error messages, warnings, etc.).